From Tony Emerson (Apogee results) and Laura Alter (Austin Internet marketing meetup.)
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PRESENTATION SLIDESHOW: http://www.slideshare.net/asemerson/local-seo-keep-austin-searchable
Yahoo patent reveals how they detect local intent in users' searches:
http://www2009.org/proceedings/pdf/p481.pdf
April 2010 Emarketer Articles regarding Local Search
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007651
http://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?R=1007566
Creating Geositemaps
http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/kmlSearch.html
SEO by the Sea - Local Search Glossary
http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=510
10 Likely Elements of Google's Local Search Algorithm
http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/10-likely-elements-of-googles-local-search-algorithm/519/
How to Create Effective Local Business Landing Pages
http://devbasu.com/local-search-landing-page-design-guide/
David Mihm's Survey of Local Rankings Factors (May 26, 2009)
http://www.davidmihm.com/local-search-ranking-factors.shtml
SEOmoz - finding citations from competitors (how to)
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/one-dead-simple-tactic-for-better-rankings-in-google-local
SearchEngineLand.com - Usability and Local Factors (mainly postulation)
http://searchengineland.com/googles-usability-fixation-reveals-local-ranking-factors-40579
hCard micro formatting
http://microformats.org/wiki/hcard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCard
http://searchengineland.com/the-hcard-microformat-local-search-optimization-12424
Distribution List of Universal Business Listings (you can pay these guys $30 per submission or just go down the list and fill out everything that applies)
https://www.ubl.org/Distribution_List.aspx
Places to which you should definitely submit your listing, other than Google, Yahoo, and Bing
Citysearch.com
Superpages.com
Insiderpages.com
Merchantcircle.com
Yelp.com
Yellowpages.com
Brownpages.com
Localeze.com
infoUSA.com
TripAdvisor.com
JudysBook.com
Angieslist
Kudzu.com
Google Tools for Success for Small Businesses
http://www.google.com/help/places/partners/sba/index.html
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