Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Entries Written By Mike Blumenthal
Google Now Cross Promoting Other Web Services Directly to LBC Users
I recently received this email from the Google Local Business Center: **** Google Apps helps you focus more on your business, less on IT hassles As a small business owner, you don’t want to spend additional time, money and energy on IT hassles. That’s why the Local Business Center team would like to introduce you to Google …
Which Review Sites Should You Use?
I am frequently asked: Which reviews sites should I send my clients to? Which one should I pick? My answer: think about your customers needs first (easy, choice), think about your business needs second (leverage) and consider using as many sites as make sense. I asked this question of David Mihm, Local SEO expert, and …
How long has Rogers, MN been misplaced? Let me count the minutes….
As I noted last week, Google Maps has managed to lose (more or less) the town of Rogers, MN….their “report a problem” feature notes that Map corrections take 30 days. This widget will keep track of how long it actually takes for Google to find Rogers…the clock has started! Will they meet their self imposed …
Google Maps: Sponsored Icons – Pay Your Way to the Base Level & Add a Logo
In August last year, Google Maps added icons and labels of prominent businesses and places of interest directly onto Google Maps in the form of a small icon. In the Google Maps discussion groups there has been a number of (angry) questions as to exactly how a business could get their icon embedded in the …
Google Maps: What Happens When You Lose a Town?
Wikipedia seems to know, Mapquest knows, Bing knows, even Google Organic seems to know something that is a secret to Google Maps & Google Universal results – the whereabouts of Rogers, MN. Well its not exactly true that Google Maps doesn’t know where Rogers is. It is apparently more complex than that. But real life …
Bing Maps now Allows Twitter Stream Maps to be Embedded
From the Bing Blog: We’ve just released an update to the Twitter Maps application in the Bing Maps Application Gallery. NOW, you can embed our Twitter Maps functionality into your own web site. This means you can be cool by having a Bing Map on your web site, blog, favorite social networking site with the Tweets …
Google Maps…Now where will you go for that surgery?
Sometimes Google Universal Map results return unexpected answers. This search for “surgery wellsboro” is a recent example. I am not sure which is more worrisome, answer one or answer two. As Charles & Justin pointed out, the reviews are quite strange for the McDonald’s. I’ll have a Big Mac with my operation, please:
Responding to Negative Reviews – Your Prospects are the Real Audience
Ted Paff is the President of Customer Lobby, an on-line solution to help local service businesses to get, manage and publish reviews. Ted called me when he read my principles of a review program post to introduce himself and his company. We had a far ranging conversation that covered everything from the economy to parents …
Review Case Study: With More Than One Employee Process Becomes Key
Don Campbell is president of Expand2Web which provides websites and Local SEO for small business owners. North Valley Optometry is owned by Dr. Tarryn Ngo, the wife of Don Campbell’s business partner Randy Hew. It has provided Expand2Web with a great case study on the impact of online reviews. Randy has been responsible for optimizing their …
Google Directions Widget Goes Wacky
David Rubin of Quintessential Interiors pointed out a strange bug in the Google Directions widget where it will only calculate distances in kilometers even on US based sites and domains. He noted: I have come across another Google problem that seems to be right up your alley. While testing the Google Directions Gadget that I installed …
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