Last time the frog broke news on the new “post to your place page” feature in the Google LBC. It was nice to have it picked up by Blumenthal and read his enlightening thoughts on understanding “post to your place page” feature’s importance. Today I noticed another new feature, “Service Areas” (something every small service [...]
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See what your visitors see – AttentionWizard’s HeatMaps
I found an interesting service today and thought I would mention it in a quick rant. For anyone concerned with a user friendly interface (and who isn’t?) this tool is brilliant. And it even has a free service! AttentionWizard Heat maps show where users look most (/look first) on your webpages. This particular service uses [...]
“post to your place page” – Google Local Business Center turning into a small business blog dashboard
So as far as I can tell Google just rolled this update out. The Google Local Business Center (the dashboard where businesses can edit their local business listings) has added a new feature: “post to your place page” It seems to be some sort of blogging functionality for creating posts about your business which then [...]
The Google Local Listings Ads Are Coming…
There has been a lot of talk about these new ads: Google Intros Local Listing Ads to LBC in Limited Markets — Blumenthal My Thoughts on Google Local Listing Ads — David Mihm They haven’t come to Florida yet so I have a little breathing (and learning) time… It seems that the jury is still [...]
My recent projects, focus, and a refresher course
I have been quite busy lately with various projects for myself and clients. I have a large online project that I currently maintain and I am launching an online marketing campaign for a new client. I have three personal online marketing projects that I am working on. And I have two local marketing campaigns I [...]
How To Leverage Free Business Listings To Boost Your Rank In Google
On Google Local, citations (the links to your listings in other business listing services) are key. The following is a list of (mostly) free business listings: superpages.com yahoo local listings bing local listings insiderpages.com InfoUSA.com citysearch.com merchantcircle.com hotfrog.com magicyellow.com openlist.com localsearch.com akama.com cityvoter.com IBeginSource.com addresses.com getfave.com yellowusa.com Yelp.com localeze.com yellowpages.com allpages.com kudzu.com zvents.com manta.com topix.com [...]
Creating sitemaps
Just a quick rant post. Sitemaps are important for Google. If your site is built on wordpress there is a nifty wordpress sitemap plugin. very nifty and useful. If you use another CMS it may have its own add-on for sitemaps. And in other cases there are nifty generators like, http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/