Comments on: Where Are Google Places Pages Going? To the Index? http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/09/27/where-are-google-places-pages-going/ Developing Knowledge about Local Search Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:30:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Google Places Adds Nearby Places You Might (not) Like | Understanding Google Maps & Local Search http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/09/27/where-are-google-places-pages-going/comment-page-1/#comment-459953 Google Places Adds Nearby Places You Might (not) Like | Understanding Google Maps & Local Search Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:51:27 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=4497#comment-459953 [...] could have chosen, in the past, to highlight a business's Places Page in the main index but choose not to. Now, when a user does arrive at the page for a business there is a choice to visit competitors [...] [...] could have chosen, in the past, to highlight a business's Places Page in the main index but choose not to. Now, when a user does arrive at the page for a business there is a choice to visit competitors [...]

]]> By: Will the Real Google Places Page, Please Stand Up, Please Stand Up? http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/09/27/where-are-google-places-pages-going/comment-page-1/#comment-453994 Will the Real Google Places Page, Please Stand Up, Please Stand Up? Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:19:40 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=4497#comment-453994 [...] If you don’t have duplicate listings on any variation of the name or duplicates on address, you should try to manually create the Places page using the standardized format per Mike Blumenthall: [...] [...] If you don’t have duplicate listings on any variation of the name or duplicates on address, you should try to manually create the Places page using the standardized format per Mike Blumenthall: [...]

]]> By: Google Replaces Tele Atlas Data in US with Google StreetView Data | Understanding Google Maps & Local Search http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/09/27/where-are-google-places-pages-going/comment-page-1/#comment-432854 Google Replaces Tele Atlas Data in US with Google StreetView Data | Understanding Google Maps & Local Search Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:45:26 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=4497#comment-432854 [...] has been a lot of activity of late in Google Maps with rollout of Places and its attendant controversy, tests of the new Local Listing Ads, Ads in the iPhone, Streetview in Canada & the Czech [...] [...] has been a lot of activity of late in Google Maps with rollout of Places and its attendant controversy, tests of the new Local Listing Ads, Ads in the iPhone, Streetview in Canada & the Czech [...]

]]> By: Mike http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/09/27/where-are-google-places-pages-going/comment-page-1/#comment-430727 Mike Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:04:12 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=4497#comment-430727 @Ross Yes and there are some interesting enhancement that are worth keeping an eye on: -Hours now show whether they are open or closed at the moment you look (think realtime mobile filters for "whats open nearby") -The Thumbnail of the StreetView indicates whether Google has you properly geo-coded There is more that I will hopefully get to after SMX Mike @Ross
Yes and there are some interesting enhancement that are worth keeping an eye on:
-Hours now show whether they are open or closed at the moment you look (think realtime mobile filters for “whats open nearby”)
-The Thumbnail of the StreetView indicates whether Google has you properly geo-coded

There is more that I will hopefully get to after SMX
Mike

]]> By: Ross Jones http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/09/27/where-are-google-places-pages-going/comment-page-1/#comment-430724 Ross Jones Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:22:03 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=4497#comment-430724 Just stepped backwards thru the url: http://maps.google.com/places/us/buffalo/main-st/5820/-barbara-oliver-company-jewelry Nice Place Page on Main St: Directions, Search Nearby, Transit, Photos & Videos, Popular Places, Top Contributors, Related Maps, Popular Searches... and, of course, AdWords. Looks pretty useful to me. Just stepped backwards thru the url:
http://maps.google.com/places/us/buffalo/main-st/5820/-barbara-oliver-company-jewelry

Nice Place Page on Main St:
Directions, Search Nearby, Transit, Photos & Videos, Popular Places, Top Contributors, Related Maps, Popular Searches… and, of course, AdWords.
Looks pretty useful to me.

]]> By: Google es su propio y principal enemigo « RSS2Blogs http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/09/27/where-are-google-places-pages-going/comment-page-1/#comment-430084 Google es su propio y principal enemigo « RSS2Blogs Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:55:53 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=4497#comment-430084 [...] puerta de entrada a Internet es mayor la dependencia de los webmasters a SUS estándares de SEO ¿como esperan que la gente confíe en ustedes si están indexando y mostrando resultados propios en e...? – ¿Tienen real conciencia de su peso en la vida online de la gente como para ser lo [...] [...] puerta de entrada a Internet es mayor la dependencia de los webmasters a SUS estándares de SEO ¿como esperan que la gente confíe en ustedes si están indexando y mostrando resultados propios en e…? – ¿Tienen real conciencia de su peso en la vida online de la gente como para ser lo [...]

]]> By: Mike http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/09/27/where-are-google-places-pages-going/comment-page-1/#comment-430013 Mike Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:15:45 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=4497#comment-430013 For a more advanced look at the technical issues see: http://searchengineland.com/google-places-pages-now-showing-in-search-26636 For a more advanced look at the technical issues see:

http://searchengineland.com/google-places-pages-now-showing-in-search-26636

]]> By: Mike http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/09/27/where-are-google-places-pages-going/comment-page-1/#comment-430011 Mike Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:07:49 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=4497#comment-430011 It apparently means it won't be crawled but if there are external links to the page it will get indexed. The result will not have any meta information or page content but it can still appear in the search results. It will show the link text as the title In the end analysis, it will have little impact configured this way on the grand scheme of business listings. It could however impact the geo searches if a Places page receives external links. Google misspoke when they described how they were handling the pages. It apparently means it won’t be crawled but if there are external links to the page it will get indexed.

The result will not have any meta information or page content but it can still appear in the search results. It will show the link text as the title

In the end analysis, it will have little impact configured this way on the grand scheme of business listings. It could however impact the geo searches if a Places page receives external links.

Google misspoke when they described how they were handling the pages.

]]> By: John Cronin http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/09/27/where-are-google-places-pages-going/comment-page-1/#comment-430009 John Cronin Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:57:23 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=4497#comment-430009 erm, if the robots.txt states disallow /places/ ..then that means that path won't get indexed. I don't see why nofollow is suggested in the paragraph in the blog post above? Or am I missing something? John erm, if the robots.txt states disallow /places/ ..then that means that path won’t get indexed. I don’t see why nofollow is suggested in the paragraph in the blog post above?

Or am I missing something?

John

]]> By: Google es su propio y principal enemigo | Denken Über http://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/09/27/where-are-google-places-pages-going/comment-page-1/#comment-429988 Google es su propio y principal enemigo | Denken Über Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:06:40 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=4497#comment-429988 [...] puerta de entrada a Internet es mayor la dependencia de los webmasters a SUS estándares de SEO ¿como esperan que la gente confíe en ustedes si están indexando y mostrando resultados propios en e...? – ¿Tienen real conciencia de su peso en la vida online de la gente como para ser lo [...] [...] puerta de entrada a Internet es mayor la dependencia de los webmasters a SUS estándares de SEO ¿como esperan que la gente confíe en ustedes si están indexando y mostrando resultados propios en e…? – ¿Tienen real conciencia de su peso en la vida online de la gente como para ser lo [...]

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