Comments on: Google Maps starts Newsletter and Account Updates Email

By: Market Watch 8/17/09 | Rochester Local Leads

Market Watch 8/17/09 | Rochester Local Leads — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 15:26:31 +0000

[...] The LBC is now sending emails to customers with traffic data and analytics information (similar to Berry’s websites). Link Here. [...]

By: Google LBC Newsletter for SMBs 2009/08/11 | Local Business Online - Smart Tips

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:32:45 +0000

[...] Blumenthal, a keen watcher of the Google Local Business Center, notes that Google Maps has a Newsletter and Account Updates Email [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:55:51 +0000

I think that Google is just trying to use “the vernacular” so as to make the newsletter more approachable. I think they mean website.

By: Ross Jones

Ross Jones — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:43:00 +0000

Make sure to list your authoritative business website as your homepage, since Google uses information from your homepage to help improve search results.

The choice to use the word "homepage" stuck out to me as interesting. Are they using homepage as synonymous for website or do they mean a single page?

By: Joan van Hilten

Joan van Hilten — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 11:06:53 +0000

Oh this will be awesome – I get about 40 copies of the same thing. Woot Woot.
I hadn’t forgotten about it cuz the silly thing keeps popping up on different accounts to click off what I want to do.
It would be awesome to have the reports emailed monthly then I can provide that to the Sales team for the clients that were done manually.

Heres to the hopes that soon the bulk uploaded listings will also be reported on again.

By: Mike Ramsey

Mike Ramsey — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:00:03 +0000

@Blumenthal…You will probably get 20 newsletters a year from now! I really like “tell us your story feature.” I would love to have testimonials OUTSIDE of my own testimonials just to show the progression of the LBC, it would be great if google puts a lot more stories linked to the LBC center.

By: Mike Blumenthal

Mike Blumenthal — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:05:45 +0000

I did not receive an email of the newsletter either so I am wondering if it is working correctly just yet…also what happens if I have 20 different businesses in my account?

By: Martijn Beijk

Martijn Beijk — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:30:03 +0000

Have not received notifications yet but good to hear they finally started sending out these messages…it took so long I had almost forgotten this ‘feature’.