Comments on: MapQuest Wants Your Local Content

By: Steve Sherron

Steve Sherron — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:46:32 +0000

I revisited Mapquest local today to find my Tweets being shown and all of the videos at the bottom of the page highlighting local videos were mine. I think it’s a good idea to SEO your videos with the name of your town so they are picked up on sites like this.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 00:50:22 +0000

You’re right, Geordie. They added that Twitter widget sometime after this post, and I think I wrote about it on my other blog (Small Biz Search Mktg.). It’s a cool addition.

By: Geordie Romer

Geordie Romer — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:00:12 +0000

Also notice the Twitter widget. If you are the only local Tweet, you will definitely get some exposure. (same with youtube and flickr)

By: Steve Sherron

Steve Sherron — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:33:53 +0000

Thanks again Matt. I just signed up. What I found amusing is that when I went to the local page for my town, on the bottom right of the page, sat one of my videos that Truveo had pulled from youtube.

By: Topix.com as a Hyperlocal Portal

Topix.com as a Hyperlocal Portal — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:18:14 +0000

[...] impressive, but I still find the new MapQuest Local to be a more compelling local portal experience. Ironically, MapQuest is pulling its local news [...]

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:15:27 +0000

Justin,

In our own way I think that outside.in’s GeoToolkit is a start. We are going to be doing some things that will help you get your content on to other sites as well as ours and our partners. See Matt’s nice post about our just released StoryMaps.

By: Justin Smith | Searching Solutions

Justin Smith | Searching Solutions — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:47:41 +0000

That’s a good find Matt.

If someone could just unlock the puzzle allowing hyperlocal bloggers to get their content on sites like this, the world would be a much happier place.

By: MiriamEllis

MiriamEllis — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:48:05 +0000

Isn’t that a nice invitation! What an opportunity for hyperlocal bloggers. I really hope you’ll follow up on this regarding your experience with the real estate blogs appearing on MapQuest.

Miriam

By: Nick Bastian

Nick Bastian — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:05:49 +0000

Matt,
Thanks for posting this, it looks very interesting! I tried to submit without API info but it wouldn’t take. Off to get the info and give it another try!

By: Michael Dorausch

Michael Dorausch — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:36:37 +0000

Great seeing this Matt. You make things so much easier on the rest of us by identifying this tips, putting them into action, and blogging about them.

One more thing to place on my ToDo list.