Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Entries Written By Mike Blumenthal
Google Places: What Else Went Missing on the Places Page in the Update
Last week Google Places updated the display of the Places Page. In doing so they removed the review summaries, review snippets and 3rd party citations from the page. They removed a number of other fields from the Places display as well. Quite a few readers have asked where this field or that field has gone …
Google AdWords Express Email Received by Boost Advertisers
Here is the email that Google sent to all Boost advertisers today: Google Boost is now AdWords Express Dear Google Boost user,Thank you for choosing Boost to advertise your business online. Today, we’re renaming the product as AdWords Express and officially launching it across the U.S. This name change will not affect your account – your AdWords …
Google Places Work Around: We currently do not support the location
When working in Places the message that we all dread to hear: We do currently do not support the location is a Google message that instills the fear of god in the most expert of us. In normal situations it will show when a newly created listing has not yet been integrated in the Maps index. …
Google Boost Now Becoming Adwords Express
Mike Ramsey of NiftyMarketing, a local search marketer from Idaho, sent along this screen shot reflecting a name change to the Boost product: ——- ——- The change has not yet made it over to the Boost Help pages. Certainly it makes sense from a branding perspective to leverage Google’s well known, existing ad brand …
Google Places: Integrating some of the great information that’s been buried
With the rollout of the changes on the Places page and display of Local Universal results on the main search results page Google noted that going forward that they would be “Integrating some of the great information that’s been buried on Place pages into your web search experience across all Google platforms“. We had a …
Will the Change in Status of 3rd Party Reviews Affect Rank in Google Places?
Will the change in status of 3rd party reviews affect rank? This question was asked in 3 or 4 or perhaps 5 different ways over the past 24 hrs. There is a palpable sense of worry in the questions. The short answer: Who knows but I think not. Better yet, don’t worry about it. Here …
Google Places Gains New Ally in Review Battle with Yelp
Google has been in a pitched tussle with Yelp for quite some time. Google introduced reviews to local in 2007 and the fun began. Yelp reviews in Google, Yelp reviews out of Google, Yelp’s anger at Google’s use of their content, Google contrition, a large offer by Google and a failed buyout, Yelp reviews out of …
Google Places and the Future
The Google Lat Long Blog has formally announced the changes to Places that we saw roll out earlier in the day with their normal happy talk: Making constant tweaks and adjustments to our user interfaces and overall user experience have always been the norm at Google, and you may have recently heard about our renewed effort …
Changes in Google Places and Reviews – What Does it Mean for the SMB?
Google Places has once again “mixed it up” in the review arena. They are no longer showing the count for 3rd party reviews on the main search page and they are only displaying the count for Google reviews. They are still showing the link to the main 3rd party review sites on the main search results …
Articles from Around the Web on the New Places Layout
MAJOR Google Places Update – 3rd Party Reviews and Citations Removed or De-Emphasized – Linda Buquet’s take on the impact of reducing 3rd party review counts vis a vis dentists (and Demand Force) Google Places Interface and Reviews Changes – Optilocal’s great visual guide to the changes with a few things I hadn’t yet seen. Google Places …
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