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Local search can be extremely valuable to a business. If people search online for a business or product in a specific geographic location and you get your business in front of them at this point you are well placed to convert them into a customer. (more…)

Yet again, the predicted power of mobile local search has been highlighted, this time by Frazier Miller, general manager of Yahoo!Local.

Not only has he predicted that by 2010, mobile phone are expected to outnumber PCs by three to one, he also believes mobile users will be demanding local information the most.

This means:

“We have a perfect storm brewing between user demand, advertising desire for targeting and mobile evolution that’s going to make this an incredibly rich arena for the next few years.”

You can read more about the growth of mobile local search here.

A good summary has been posted about Yahoo!Local, advising how it ranks businesses when consumers search for local services.

You can read the top tips here

(Or click here to find out more about Yahoo!Local in general)