Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Entries Published On July, 2013
How Many Reviews to Get the Star Treatment? Somewhere Between 4 and 5
Eagle eyed Phil Rozek of Local Visibility pointed out this example of a business with 4 reviews that is showing the new star treatment in the main search result for jewelry boston: I thought that odd as previously it had seemed that 5 reviews was the limit to get the star treatment. Well it is odd. …
Love-Hate Relationship? Zagat Brand Gets Increasing Visibility in 5-Star Carousel
I did not notice this before but as the new Local Carousel takes on the 5-Star treatment, it appears that the Zagat brand is taking on a higher profile or at least its Z is. This seems odd to me given Google’s move away from the Zagat rating system and having laid off all of their temporary …
Google’s 5-(orange) Stars Spreading Internationally, to Adwords & Rich Snippets
More folks are reporting the visibility of the 5-Star system on the main search results that Google has been rolling out. I am seeing them at work in Chrome on my Mac but not in Safari or Firefox and I am still not seeing them at home. There were also reports of them being seen …
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