If the law firms are getting in, it's time to join in!

In the UK, the legal sector is stepping up its online operations.

In a recent survey, 42% percent of respondents said that they expect to increase their spending on online projects and 26 percent agree that Web 2.0 will be a key component of their online strategy.

On this evidence, there is no doubt that the social media phenomenon of Web 2.0 has a permanent role to play in disciplines such as law.

Both large and small legal firms increasing their efforts in making their content more appealing through new technology such as RSS feeds, podcasts and video clips.

Part of the social media landscape is Local Search. More people are sourcing goods and services closer to home, due to the rise in petrol prices and the "think globally - act locally" mind set.

Embracing this emerging Web 2.0 mind set is UK Local Search and Business Directory.

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Monte Huebsch CEO

Search and Copyrights

Google announced that from May, 2008 any advertiser will be able to bid on 'trademarked single words' for search terms in the UK and Ireland.

Previously, companies could ask Google to protect their single word trademarks from rival bids. The US lifted this trademark policy four years ago.

Over 90 per cent of the UK's top 100 searches contained trademarks, while in the US, 40 per cent of the US's top 100 trademark queries contained competitor listings in the results.

This suggests that competitors actually find it difficult to appear against competitor terms, due to the Quality Score Index where trademark owners have the clear advantage.

Your trademark names can be indexed in Googles organic listing when you participate in our Local Search and Business Directory in the UK. Update your listing in www.UK-Local-Search.co.uk

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Monte Huebsch, CEO and the "Google Guru"

1/3rd of all traffic in the UK comes from Google

Hitwise data for March 2008 revealed that Google Internet properties send over one-third of all Internet traffic to websites in the UK.

A custom category consisting of the 100 most visited web properties in the UK that are owned by Google accounted for 36.55% of upstream traffic to All Categories of websites, up from 30.19% in March 2007.

The most visited Google property in the UK was Google UK; with a market share of 7.77% of all UK Internet visits in March 2008, it was also the most visited website in the UK.

Google UK was also the website that sent the most traffic to other websites during March, accounting for 27.48% of upstream traffic to All Categories.

What this means is your eally need to be found in Google. One way to assist with this is to have a free listing in our UK Local Search and Business Directory. This also gives you a Page Rank 4 backward link!

Enjoy

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Monte Huebsch CEO

Another WIKI based Business Directory

Friday Holdings Ltd, one of the UK’s leading online and offline publishers of classified and vertical lifestyle businesses, announced a major investment in the free online local business directory www.Brownbook.net .

Brownbook.net, was launched in February 2008 and has over 2.2 million businesses already listed, with hundreds being added every week by its users. Users can both add listings themselves and also add photo and video reviews about businesses listed as well.

Free, user generated and self edited business Local Search Directories are typical of the direction of Internet 2.0.

Our efforts at http://www.Uk-Local-Search.co.uk like Brown Book is also a Wiki driven site, but we actually verify the accuracy of additions and amendments. Why not be in both?

Monte Huebsch CEO

All the best from the UK Local Search and Business Directory team.

UK Local Search adds 83,000 verified email address

We have recently add over 83,000 new email addresses to the UK Local Search engine. For this Local UK business directory, over 63,000 are unique! This means a better UK local search business directory and an easier way to contact a business near you. Spread the work, you participation is completely free and increases the value of this UK Local business directory for all of us. Thank you the UK Local Search development team.

What is in your UK local area?

New to your neighborhood? Haven’t had a chance to get out recently? It is often useful to familiarise yourself with what businesses are available in your local neighborhood. With the high cost of petrol and the increasing traffic jams, knowing what can be provided locally really helps. This will save you time and money!

We have recently added this feature to UK Local Search. Just go to the UK local search directory page. Select view all locations and select your region and then suburb. The system will then return a complete list of all businesses in your local area. Each category shown will have a listing. No empty categories will be presented.

You now know what is available in your local area. This is very useful and we would like to thank all the users of UK Local Search who suggested this addition.
All the best from the UK Local Search development team.

Local Search growing according to Google

We have just completed another day of full time training with the Google AdWords team from Sydney Australia. It was a great session again. We discussed the growth in local search from Google Maps perspective. More and more people are starting to use this resource and the presence of AdWords on map searches is growing. We will discus the Mobi space another time.

What this means for UK Local Search and our UK Business Directory is that the value of local search for business listings is growing. Local business search is growing faster then universal search. People are beginning to see the value of using search to find local businesses. Your participation in local search business directories is becoming a priority for local businesses. Your UK local shop front needs to be included in local search directories and it must show you on a map. Our UK Local Search Directory uses Google maps to provide this information.