More Details On Google Places Hotel Booking Feature

Details about Google Places Hotel booking feature, first widely seen in November, are starting to leak out. Google has been somewhat reticent to make meaningful public comments and provide significant details about it. This Places feature allows users to select a booking date, click through from the Places Page and immediately begin the booking process. …

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Updated Google Interface Rolling Out?

Is this a test or a rollout? I am seeing this subtly different interface on all Google properties. Is anyone else seeing? Click to view larger: Barry Schwartz just pinged me to let me know that it is a test first seen last week. It is however being reported in New Zealand and Denmark.

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Google Place/Tags Support Calls Me Back

I have been working to un-merge two listings on Google since November 5th. This is a problem that has plagued these two b & b’s forever. In an effort to speed this along, I called Google in late December and again in early January to speak with a Tags Rep to see if they could …

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GetListed Local University Portland

The next GetListed Local University is coming up shortly: Portland on Tues, February 22 at the downtown Gerding Theater at the Armory. Getlisted U has been a fun event for me. I get to work with lots of great folks and present directly to small business people. One of the things about GetListed Local U …

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Testimonials as Reviews – A View from the Field

Last week after publication of the new Google Rich Snippets for Local FAQ and follow up comments by Carter Maslan, there was a great deal of discussion about what was best practice vis a vis testimonials on a SMB web site. Clearly, when you focus on the client, having this type of content can be …

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Google Maps Goes Gooey- MapYourValentine.com

Update 2/114 12:26: Google Lat Long has just announced this product. Now that Google has finished solving all of the more difficult mapping problems in the world like routing software, and transportation and recommendation engines, they are now focusing on the more important things in life – Love. Or at least a Google proxy of it. …

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Google Places: Respond To Review Fixed (Again)

The “Respond Publicly as the Owner” is now working once again. According to Stephen from Google, the respond to review feature for Places listing owners is now fixed. Reports in the forum indicate that those recently experiencing the problem are also noting the problem as fixed. We’ve rolled out an update today that should resolve this …

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Google Testing New SSSerps?

That’s not a speech impediment, nor a typo in the headline…. It’s a new acronym for our industry: Super Short Search Enginge Results Page. It appears that Google is once again testing local results in a very abbreviated page. These were first spotted by Youssaf (@ysekand) in the UK in September and again by Sebastian Socha …

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