Pretty cool.

thanks for the great tips on this…

I have read everyone of your Rich Snippet Blog Posts (All of which are very interesting) but they all seem to pertain to local Google Search Results. A few months ago I implemented Rich Snippets into my website and I was hoping to get them approved so they appear on the main search results (Not Just Local), much like overstock or williams sonoma, and I was wondering if there is anyway you could help me or send me contact information of someone who may be able to help me.

You have a very interesting blog. It truly has a lot of information you can’t seem to find anywhere else. Thanks for all of your help in advance and I am looking forward to all of your future blog posts.

Another benefit of publishing testimonials, especially via third party sites is that you get another SERP (or more) on the organic listing. Just an idea..

David

Mike you are right but it def isn’t going to hurt you… if I waited for “ground evidence” I would have waited 5 or more years to implement hyphen as space. No evidence until Matt Cutts said… we treat – as space. I look at the risk to potential benefits… See little to no risk and major benefits to implementing machine readable code to a page. However, I would implement as part of other site updating activity.

I do agree that your Places Page should be as attractive as Google allows. I also agree that Google is attempting to send more traffic to your Places Page and as they move forward in Mobile that will be even more true.

To me though, Places and every other page that has info about you on the web should all focus on getting folks to your website. When Google (or FB, or Twitter, or whomever) changes policies or worse goes out of business, the digital equity you invested in their pages will go up in smoke one morning. You will be left with picking up the pieces rather than just having to rearrange them.

I have trouble believing that ‘linking your website to your Google place profile “is a very powerful authority boost.”’ Until I see proof of that I will remain skeptical.

Linking to your Places Page, for me, makes sense because it makes it easier for a client to find your Places Listing amongst the complexities and clutter that is Google. In this scenario, your web page is just facilitating the interaction with the Google Places Page.

I also provide easily accessible links to the review pages of other common review sites (Yelp, Yahoo etc). This has the benefit of both making it easier for the client to find and telling Google where your reviews are so that they can be spidered and included on your Places Page.

I have yet to see any of the reviews make their way into Google Places. So I just focus on getting clients to leave reviews at my Google Place site.

Personally, I think the personal domain is losing importance and that your Google Place profile is becoming the main entry point for general web traffic (at least for professional services, as opposed to products). So efforts should be focused on cultivating the Google Place page as an information center of sorts.

But I like Andy’s idea of referencing the corresponding Google reviews for authority purposes on your own website. (I had only been placing non-Google reviews on my site, i.e. Avvo.) I recently saw a blog posit linking your website to your Google place profile “is a very powerful authority boost.” Not sure if this is true, but linking to Google Place reviews seems like an easy way to implement.