Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Category Archive For "Google+ Local"
Google+ Rolling Out Vanity URLs
Google has announced that they are testing the rollout of vanity URLs for Google Plus: Custom URLs for profiles and pages: a first stepYour Google+ profile is a place for you to share your passions with the millions of people who come to Google each day. Whether you’re a clothing brand showing off your latest …
Google+ Business Pages: To Merge Or Not to Merge, That is the Question
The recent rollout of the ability to merge a G+ Business page and a G+ Local page was a significant sign post on Google’s way to integrating local into social. To Google’s credit the product and process were simple and elegant. The design was more than a notch above previous efforts in local and it …
Google+ Business and Local Merge Process is NOW LIVE
Google has just announced that the process for integrating your Google+ Local page (aka your Place Page) with the social Google+ Business Page is now live: Verification available for local pages created in Google+ Hey guys, For those of you that have created local Google+ pages (with social features) — good news! Today, you can …
Google+ Local – What Wasn’t in the Announcement Was More Important Than What Was
Last week’s announcement of Google+ Local was underwhelming. The review upgrade was impressive but the rest was tepid at best. Essentially the URL for your Place page has changed and the page now shows in the index although the “upgrade” seems to have broken more than it fixed. The announcement last week of Google+ Local was more …
Google Testing Plus Integration with Places via Authorship
Since Google announced in July that there would be Google Plus business pages there has been speculation that Google would integrate Plus and Places. We saw some early Plus Plus Places (a mouthful..) integration in November but now Google appears to be testing P+P (or is it ++P) integration using the rel=author tag as the …
Branded Local Search Results: Google Vs. Bing
With the rollout of Google Search Plus Your World, there has been a great deal of discussion about whether Google’s actions are a basis for antitrust. I tend to agree with internet lawyer Eric Goldman’s assessment: From a legal standpoint, I don’t think Search Plus Your World adds very much to the antitrust complaints against …
Google Adds Plus to Search Suggestions
Google seems to be adding Plus content just about every place these days and folks are none too happy about it. It seems that they have now added it to the search suggestions as well (this may have been seen perviously but this is the first I had seen it.). Now that’s annoying…and it gets …
Google+ To Have Business Profile Pages
Jeff Huber, Google VP of Local and Commerce, has indicated that Google+, at some point in the near future will include the option for business profile page. Here is his comment: And pre-emptively answering a question — yes, we will have (smb) business profile pages on Google+. I can’t announce a launch date yet, but …
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