I’ve been receiving many questions on how the trend to local search will affect a small business’ website, so I’m going to put my two cents in.
In case you haven’t been keeping up with what the major search engines are doing, here’s a quick overview. The future of search is in local search. Google, Yahoo!, Bing and the others try to keep track of what you search for, where you are geographically when you do the search and from that, they try to deliver relevant results that are closer to where you are located. Doing this will hopefully help you find what you need from a source close by.