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 business [...]
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 a some sort of blogging functionality for creating posts about your business which then show up [...]
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 out on whether they [...]
Are your competitors spamming Google Local?
Turf them out!
Google has a page for reporting Google maps spam
Thanks Blumenthal
Ok. So Blumenthal had an interesting post detailing with a pie chart how to get your google local listing 100% complete.
Although whether this matters or not is up to debate and the odds are on the side of it NOT mattering.
But it is fun to have a 100% nonetheless so I tested it out [...]
Google has been making changes to its local search algorithm (the formula that determines rankings).
Google is, among other things, penalising category spam.
Here is a good article on that:
Google’s Recent Changes to its Local Algorithm
As of October 2009, Google has also changed from the 10-pack to a “lucky” 7-pack.
Here is another article about Google’s changing [...]
So, I started seeing these strange additions to ads on general keywords that are being run by local advertisers doing geo-targeted campaigns.
So I would type in “XYZ information” and the ads on the right would have “XYZ service, Florida.”
hmmm. That’s new…
Then today I receive an email from google talking about “location extensions” haven’t figured [...]
