Mike Blumenthal

Steve Espinosa has noted on his blog that Maps is now supporting the option of adding a video to your business record in the Local Business Center. The feature is now live. The process of adding a video is similar to adding a photo. The business is allowed to display up to 5 videos in …

Yahoo Local Full of Affiliate Spam – eClick Performance Blog A great article on the large amount of affiliate spam in the hotel industry on Yahoo Local as a result of allowing end user edits.  Affiliates essentially highjack unclaimed records and interject their url on a pass through basis to the actual hotel website, thus …

With the recent rollout of Add a Place to Map , allowing everyone to add a listing to maps with its more flexible categorization structure, Google has also upgraded the categorization system in the Local Business Center. This upgrade comes in response to 18 months of complaints in the Google Maps for Business Group. The …