Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Entries Written By Mike Blumenthal
Google Places Search – Before and After Dashboard Analytics Comparison
Google Places search was released on October 27 with a great deal of fanfare and commentary. It has been available for over a month and the Places Dashboard analytics data can now provide some insight into the impact of the new display. I have assembled an overview of the impressions and actions based of the …
Google Micro SERPS: Only 4 (Places) Results Showing
Rasmus Himmelstrup, of SeoAnalyst, and Sebastian Socha, of KennstDueinen.de, are both reporting from Europe a new Places Search Everything result that is showing only four search results on a page. In Sebastian’s screenshot all four of those results were blended results while in Rasmus’s 3 of the 4 were blended results I had to look …
Daniel Tunkelang Leaving Google Maps to Join LinkedIn
Daniel Tunkelang has announced on his blog today that he is leaving his position at Google Maps for an exciting research position at LinkedIn. Daniel was hired at Google about a year ago. There he worked on authority pages and the of mapping businesses to their official home pages. When Daniel was first hired at …
Google Places Search – 8, 9 or More Local Results to a Page – This is not a test, I repeat, this is not a test…
It appears that Google is willing to fill the results page with local Places Search results if they are in fact the most relevant results on a given search. Mike Ramsey, our intrepid Idaho local marketer, alerted me to the occurence of 9 local results showing on the search: Boston Personal Injury Lawyer. I ran …
Google Testing 10 Pack Blended Results
Mike Ramsey from NiftyMarketing, a Boise Local Search Consultant, and frequent commenter Plamen have both spotted this new Google search results test with 10 Places results in the Everything Serps. Now the anti-IYP conspiracy theorists have something real to point to :).
Why Groupon Makes Sense (to Google)
David Mihm has an excellent piece (that I happen to agree with) on why Groupon in a broad sense is synergistic for Google. I think coupons and the new twist that Groupon brings to them will be a successful and profitable advertising medium. John Battelle thinks it worth significantly more than $2.5 billion. Greg Sterling though …
Google Places Verifying Business Listing Discrepancies with Owner
A number of users have sent me copies of a recent email communication that Google Places is sending to claimed business where there is possible problem with the listing. The emails detail potentially conflicting information with the listing when compared to information that Google has about the business in the “cluster”. In one email example …
How Long Has Marissa M Been Testing Hotspot?
Gary Danko, is not the sort of restaurant that I would typically eat at, not that I wouldn’t like to try it one day. Dinners run towards $200/ head. While, it is unlikely I ever will eat there, the many, many reviews provide for some interesting reading. Amrita – Aug 12, 2010 The seared foie gras is …
Google Places Search -Layout Experiments Continue
Whether Google is testing more on Thanksgiving or whether folks are searching more to avoid watching that football game with their relatives, I am not sure. But yesterday two readers of this blog sent me screenshots of different layouts involving Places search. Dennis Brennan sent me these screen shots showing the related searches appearing where …
Google Places Bulk Upload “Out of Order”
Apparently, the Google Places Bulk upload is currently not working with reports in both the forum (here, here & here) and on Twitter.
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