Google Inc. GOOG -1.70% has repeatedly tried, and largely failed, to crack the market for local business advertising. As early as next month, the Internet company will try anew, as it trains its largest-ever assault on the roughly $20 billion market.
Google plans to have its newest small-business service—which at one point it was calling Business Builder—up and running as early as July, said a person familiar with the matter. more…

Classified ads on Locanto are now hyper local: Through recent changes on the Locanto Classifieds websites (
New York, NY – March 19, 2012 – The latest internet concept has once again come out of the New York City area. HasToOffer.com has chosen Greater New York as the location for their first hyper-local auction style classifieds location (
The helpful classifieds website is providing unlimited ad postings with no account required. Also included are optional videos with ads at no extra cost.
Recently. The New York Times’ media critic David Carr took a look at Backpage.com, the Village Voice Media’s classified ads site. The website features a section labeled “adult” with categories, such as “escort” and “strippers & strip clubs,” that has received a lot of attention iin the past couple of months, as there have been instances in which the section
A plethora of articles have been written about the convergence of SEO and PPC, most of them fairly elementary. I think everyone understands that, at least from a keyword level, each channel can (and should) inform and reinforce the other. That idea of “reinforcement” is a bit tricky, however.