Earlier this month, I posted about where local results come from, which referenced Bruce Clay's Search Engine Relationships Chart - Local Edition. One of the search engines listed on that chart is TrueLocal.

TrueLocal has just launced a new tool that "that aggregates and shows users traffic statistics on TrueLocal. Potential advertisers can type in a zip code and a search term and receive information about TrueLocal traffic from the previous month."

I know a lot of you spend an enormous amount of time optimizing for local searches, and it seems as though this might be a great way to spend some of that time.

The press release is here. You may need to be an advertiser to access the tool. I couldn't find a link for non-advertisers, but I may have just overlooked it.

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6 Comments

  1. earlpearl April 29, 2006 at 5:17 pm

    I went through the site and all references every which way and couldn’t find a link for the traffic estimator so I contacted them for more information. My site is currently in their index, though I’m not paying for it…at this point.

    To date haven’t seen a single piece of traffic from this source.

    Dave

  2. robert paulson April 30, 2006 at 3:25 pm

    I actually found that our brick and mortar isn’t listed in there, paid or otherwise – it’s so cheap that I thought I’d give it a run, and see if the traffic estimator can be found once I have a campaign going.

    So far, I still can’t find it. And I can’t find a place to ask a support person where it is.

    Hmmm. Color me unimpressed so far….

  3. earlpearl May 3, 2006 at 6:13 pm

    I’m pretty sure I contacted them after I read this. Its now 5 days later and 3 working days. I’m thinking a bit like R Paulson. Not very responsive.

    Dave

  4. DazzlinDonna May 3, 2006 at 8:11 pm

    Ah well, maybe we can scratch that one off the list then.

  5. earlpearl May 4, 2006 at 1:46 pm

    They called today. We did a little test on my industry. Not much traffic to speak of. The estimator has only been up for a month.

    I’m generally dubious of anything outside of the engines at this time.

    I don’t see much traffic from any of these new sources.

    Dave

  6. DazzlinDonna May 4, 2006 at 1:51 pm

    ah well, good to know it actually exists, at least.

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