If you have been keeping up with the latest in local online advertising news then you know that the numbers are changing at an astounding rate. Google set the stage a couple years ago with google maps topping the organic search.

Now for the first time in history the sale of smart phones has surpassed computers. This further verifies the fact that local search is becoming king and mobile search is soon going to dominate.

Google also just purchased a mobile giant, Motorola. This shows without a doubt that the biggest search engine in the world, google is positioning itself in mobile local search.

And just for the record the largest percentage of online activities by consumers is still by far search followed by emails, just to put things in perspective. Its still larger than social networking, buying products online and getting news updates.

So for local businesses it is getting more critical by the day to get their local online advertising strategy fined tuned, especially local search.