There were several defining moments in local search in the year 2012;
The update to Google+ Local, the ability to merge your Place page with your Google+ Business page, the Google Local review problems and the thousands of small businesses deleted by Google due to the service area/hide your address fiasco.
Following are my picks for the best local search blogs posts of 2012.
See it on Scoop.it, via Google Places Optimization & Local SEO News
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