Location Based Services & Customer Opinions in Europe: How Do Consumers Rate Local Businesses? {Trend! study}

Linking social networks, geolocation functions and mobile technologies are presenting marketers with drastic new challenges: customers can comment on and evaluate a service or a product immediately, while still on site, and pass this on to social networks in no time at all. And what's more: search engines, above all Google, now use their algorithms to measure the userFeedback as well as the location-related information Significance to. A trend that Future will get even stronger. Reason enough to investigate in a comprehensive study: How and, above all, what exactly do customers say about the location-related Companys?

Background to the study

Nomao, a European regional referral search engine, has evaluated well over 100 millions of posts from Internet users across five European countries from the 9 millions of sites it searches on a daily basis.

Not only country-specific differences but also country-specific differences were examined in France, England, Germany, Italy, Spain and France Ask such as: Which companies are evaluated? Which social networks are used for this? How often are comments made? What expressions are used? And finally: What is the content tendency of the comments?

The results of the study

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In the five largest European countries, eight times more comments were made about local businesses within four years. This figure will increase further in the coming years, for several reasons:

• More and more people own smartphones: between 2010 and 2011, the number of smartphones increased by 44 percent.
• More spread of apps on phones2: More than 1 million apps were 2011 in circulation.
• Creation of ever-new Internet favors on niche markets such as Yelp or tripadvisor.

Although the Europeans comment on the same addresses, the amount of content produced differs depending on the countries of origin and the local markets:

• 40% of all places annotated in the European Internet refer to gastronomy.
• The accommodation sector is average with 12 opinions the area that is most commented on.
• A place in the UK has an average of seven opinions: twice as much as other countries surveyed.

European Internet users prefer to make favorable recommendations, but not negative Post reviews or sharp Criticism zu to practice. The way of describing a place differs depending on the origin of the users:

• 80% of reviews of local businesses by internet users are positive.
• The Italian comments on companies are 2,5 times longer than Spanish.
• The service and the location are the most important criteria for the internet users.
• If the internet users comment on an address, the price is clearly not the most important factor.
• Only 1% of commented restaurants and 3% of hotels receive more than 200 reviews.

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