Comments on: Google’s Data-Rich Dashboard in Local Business Center- Official Announcment

By: Anya

Anya — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:30:17 +0000

This is certainly a step in the right direction and something I think many of us have been hoping Google would add for a long time. I do think it would be nice if they showed which keyword drove which actions. An export feature would also be nice. But I guess we have to take it one step at a time.

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Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:48:07 +0000

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By: earlpearl

earlpearl — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:49:43 +0000

Mike:

A quick note. I’ll add it in google groups for maps commentary also. I had added and claimed a record in the lbc for a business. The website wasn’t up. When the dashboard first came out…we had a vision of the dashboard, albeit the data was wierd. We had actions on the lbc record…but no impressions.

The business had been purchased from an older business that had a listing in G Maps (and the lbc) but had never been claimed.

After a while, G Maps no longer was showing our claimed record for the business but rather data from the old business with references back to its web site (the phone number was the same)

We didn’t do anything w/the record until the web site went up.

At that point we no longer had data from the dashboard.

As soon as the website was finished we edited the lbc record with the new url and new email.

BINGO. G maps made an immediate change (could be temporary w/out more work).

Maps started showing the info on our lbc record with correct address, phone number and corrected url.

The dashboard returned.

I suspect dashboard statistics are pulled primarily from google.com vis a vis some algo that co relates a web url with number of times it could appear in conjunction with a showing of maps.

Dave

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By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:24:08 +0000

@DavidW

Yes it is a step in the right direction but the details in the dashboard are slim. I agree with you on the value of which keywords led to which actions.

In addition to indicating which keywords lead to which actions it would be useful if they also provided information on
* Other (Search queries) – 10 is a very arbitrary number and the value of understanding the long tail would be significant. It would be useful even if in summary or quarterly or annual aggregate form
* A summary of the geo phrases used in order of frequency
* Information as to the locations of the users (again in aggregate or summary form over longer time periods.

In the interview Carter Maslan spoke of the problem with privacy issues. That is a significant issue with these results. But if the information were summarized over longer period or only showed if there enough results as opposed to arbitrarily cutting the data off, it would increase dramatically in value.

By: DavidW

DavidW — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 04:37:10 +0000

This is certainly a step in the right direction and something I think many of us have been wishing Google would add for quite some time. They could increase my excitement about the dashboard exponentially by showing which keywords lead to a which actions.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:44:57 +0000

These data are not a professional’s dream data thats for sure. There are a number of things lacking that would be meaningful.

By: J Wilson

J Wilson — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:40:28 +0000

This is awesome data, but I agree if you have several locations it’s hard to analyze without an export feature.

Also, these new features are not available for locations submitted via bulk upload.

By: Joan van Hilten

Joan van Hilten — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:01:48 +0000

It would be awesome if they were working on a way to export this into
an excel document.
We were checking it out yesterday and didn’t see one.

This would be a great tool to work with if we could.

( it’s a really wonderful upgrade don’t get me wrong, I’m just
saying… exporting would be way cool and totally rad!!)

Joan