Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Entries Published On November, 2010
Google Rolls Boost Out to 11 Additional Cities & Illinois
Google just announced that Boost, their new simplified Local Adword Product, is now available in the following cities: * San Jose * Seattle * Wichita * Charlottesville (VA) * Atlanta * Chapel Hill * Orlando * Washington D.C. * Boston * Cross Plains (TX) * Portland (ME) * All local businesses in Illinois. The announcement …
Google Places Upgrade: Reviews with Sentiments & Hotel Booking Tool
Along with the recent rollout of Hotpot, Google has added new review related features to the Places Page. The first, available on restaurants and hotels (perhap more but not on every type of business) allows you to summarize sentiment about the location: Restaurant: Hotel: The ability to quickly and easily add sentiment will further build …
Google Hotpot – Yelp Meets Netflix in a Local Recommendation Engine
In August I asked: Will Reviews Become Google’s First Successful Foray into Social? It struck me at the time that reviews were Google’s strongest and most successful play into the social world. Google had succeeded with Places to garner a significant number of reviews and with the owner review response feature to garner a strong, …
ReviewBiz – Making Reviews Friction Free
I am a big fan of an ethical review solicitation process that smooths the path between customers and creating reviews. If reviews are going to reflect the overall impression of your business accurately, a broad sampling of your customers needs to participate and it needs to be easy. I think that the opportunity to easily …
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