Mike Blumenthal

Ancient History In 2004 Google Local was released as an independent entity on Google.com. In April of 2006, when Google merged Local into Maps, the competitive scene was much different than today. Google’s main competitors on the mapping and directions side were Mapquest and Yahoo and on the IYP side Superpages, Yellowpages and Yahoo. Google …

Barry at SEORountable has just posted that Google is changing their recommended practice for removing duplicate listings of your business from Maps. Here are the new guidelines from the Google Places Help (bolds in body are mine): Duplicate listings for my business Duplicates listings for a single business are often issues in both Google Maps …