Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Entries Written By Mike Blumenthal
Guide to Choosing a Smart Phone for Local
In early January, Miriam Ellis of Solas Web Design asked the Local Chumps (an email salon whose members vary depending on the weather but that day included myself, Miriam, David Mihm, Matt McGee, Andrew Shotland & Will Scott) what smart phone should she buy. In doing her due diligence, she wanted to know which had …
Google Maps: Now Adding Reviews from News Sites, Hyperlocal Blogs and Other Non Traditional Review Sources
What’s New in Reviews at Google Maps: With their newly implemented sentiment analysis, Google Maps is apparently now reaching across hyperlocal blogs, local portals and news sites and retrieving blog entries, general editorial reporting and even blog comments for inclusion as reviews on their Places Pages. This change portends a dramatically changed review landscape where …
Google Maps Also Showing Display Ads for LBC
Google Maps has been active both on-line and off promoting the Local Business Center. I noted last week that Google was increasing their trade show presence as well. This weekend while visiting Sebastien Provencher’s blog I happen to notice this Google Display Ad showing on his site: **** It would be interesting to know the …
How Often Did a Map Show on Google.com in December? 868 million times?
According to Comscore, in December 2009, Americans conducted 14.7 billion core searches, with Google Sites accounting for 65.7 percent search market share, virtually unchanged from 65.6 percent in November. Thus Google was searched 9.65 billions times in the US. Google has noted in their official blog that “Proportion of Google result pages that show a …
Loci2009: Greg Sterling: An Explosion of Interest in “Local” in 2009
I’ve been watching what we now call the “local online market” or “local search market” for about a decade. And finally in the past year we’ve seen an explosion of interest in “local.” Strangely, the mobile handset arms race and growth of the mobile Internet this year have made the concept of local more accessible …
Google Maps Adds Events to Places Pages
Update: Here is Google’s LatLong Post on the new feature: Make Google Place Pages your business’ megaphone A nod to the Tenacious Frog for first spotting this one….Google Maps is now integrating events and the opportunity to display time sensitive information into your Places Page. Businesses can now add events, specials & time sensitive activities …
GetListed.org Local University Inaugural Event in Spokane
As you know, I think that all searches, like politics, are local. Knowledge should be as well. There is a huge disconect between what is happening in “local” and many of the businesses on the street that really need to leverage the possibilities for marketing that come from that knowledge. We hope that Getlisted.org Local …
Google Maps partners with eFax to Promote Local Business Center
Since early summer, Google Maps has been actively promoting the Local Business Center to SMBs. This is a positive development as the LBC needs relatively high adoption to truly succeed and provide the promised benefits. Until this summer, Google was all too quiet about its existence. There have been a number of relatively high profile …
Semmy’s: Honoring Search Articles from 2009
The Matt McGee‘s annual Semmy Awards have been announced and 3 of my articles published this year have been nominated. My thanks go out to Matt (and his many minions) for all of his effort in recognizing the many great articles from throughout the year. It is a monumental task to track, collate and order …
Loci2009: Gib Olander’s Important Trends and Directions in Local
So not all of these posts were explicitly about local but I think they all discuss leading trends and toward solving problems that local is dealing with or will be dealing with in the near future. Here are eight posts from 2009 that sum up the year and point toward where we are going in …
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