Comments on: GetListed Birmingham http://blumenthals.com/blog/2011/01/26/getlisted-birmingham/ Developing Knowledge about Local Search Wed, 22 May 2013 18:39:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Nick@Skyline http://blumenthals.com/blog/2011/01/26/getlisted-birmingham/comment-page-1/#comment-544492 Nick@Skyline Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:04:21 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=8989#comment-544492 @ Mark

as I have proposed before in this very blog…That This is all too familiar..I for some reason keep thinking of alta vista and there decline stemming from a long witch hunt against spam..I agree it wont be sudden but more of incrementalistic fall from grace..

I can only assume the word Search Neutrality will be more and more of an everyday topic

I am interested in blekko and bing and what they are going to do next to try to seduce the smb’s

]]> By: Mark http://blumenthals.com/blog/2011/01/26/getlisted-birmingham/comment-page-1/#comment-544490 Mark Wed, 26 Jan 2011 23:27:43 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=8989#comment-544490 @Nick – combined with the tags product and my own experience with their shady sales and placement tactics it is only a matter of time. Google grew via WOM in regard to their better search results back in the day. Being a public company that is chasing constant revenue growth has destroyed their vision. I agree we are seeing the beginning of the end for this company (not that they are going to fail today tomorrow or in the next 5 years but they have started digging the grave)

That being I think it is coincidence not correlation. Google has finally placed a concerted effort on local. As a result the problems we are all seeing is caused by the people making the decisions at Google. Being techie elite who do not understand the needs of businesses and consumers at the ground level they are not addressing the complaints and concerns of their primary audience. If anything Mr Blumenthals blog has been a running testimonial to this trend.

]]> By: Nick@Skyline http://blumenthals.com/blog/2011/01/26/getlisted-birmingham/comment-page-1/#comment-544485 Nick@Skyline Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:09:42 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=8989#comment-544485 I now have the option for boost ads for most categories in my dashboard….I find the timing of the boost ads going nationwide and the phone verifications being shut down a little to close together….well played google well played

“list your business for free” if you have 3 weeks to wait for a post card then 3 weeks for google to index your places page by my count thats 11.5 % of the year…

OR

you can just pay 450 $ for 115 – 195 clicks “estimated” per month

Did google just turn into the DMV

I just sold my google shares and bought Baidu

]]> By: Mike http://blumenthals.com/blog/2011/01/26/getlisted-birmingham/comment-page-1/#comment-544476 Mike Wed, 26 Jan 2011 19:06:40 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=8989#comment-544476 @Nick
Saw the announcement but haven’t yet been able to play

]]> By: Nick@Skyline http://blumenthals.com/blog/2011/01/26/getlisted-birmingham/comment-page-1/#comment-544475 Nick@Skyline Wed, 26 Jan 2011 18:34:02 +0000 http://blumenthals.com/blog/?p=8989#comment-544475 @mike

Have you seen the new upload a photo option in google places

it links to a picasa web album from the google places interface..im going to play with it a little bit then report back

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