Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Entries Written By Mike Blumenthal
Mapping Marketshare Details
Last week in, Mapping Marketshare: Maps Up, Mapquest Down & Yahoo Local is UP! a reader noted that it was unfair comparing Yahoo Maps with Google Maps since Yahoo split out Maps and Local into two products. Heather Hopkins of Hitwise has redrawn the graph to show Yahoo Maps & Local. She has also represented …
Local Links of Interest
Dash’s Car Navigator Gives Smart Directions, if Others Participate – Walt Mossburg, WSJ I have not really been following the Dash but after having read Mossburg’s article in the WSJ it struck as quite significant that your car would act as a data “probe” to provide real time traffic information to a community of users. …
iBegin Response to the spam conversation
Ahmed of iBegin has just written an insightful piece about fighting local spam in response to the recent articles that have appeared , SearchEngineland, eClick, Small Business SEM and here about affiliate spam at Yahoo. He sites some interesting statistics that only 1/2 of 1% of all user edits are malicious. However the impact of these …
Yahoo Responds to Affiliate Spam Issue – as do I
Matt McGee has in interview, Yahoo Local’s Affiliate Spam: ‘A Unique Case’, with Brian Gil, Director of Product Management for Yahoo! Local in which he responds to the recent affiliate spam articles at SearchEngineLand and eClick: “We haven’t seen what I would categorize as significant abuse issues. I’m not going to speak specifically to the …
How to change your Business Address in the Internet Age
Update: Please see An Internet Change of Address Guide It used to be a relatively simple job to get your address changed when you moved a business. You simply needed to contact the four or five principal parties; the Post Office, the Phone Company, your Yellow Page Rep (actually he would track you down), the Newspaper …
Mapping Marketshare: Maps Up, Mapquest Down & Yahoo Local is UP!
Google’s addition of the Local 10-Pack piqued my curiosity about its affect on Maps visitation. As I reported yesterday, according to Hitwise, visitation has gone up on the order of 21% since January 23rd. This begged the question of, at whose expense was this market share gain by Google. In the past MapsQuest has suffered …
A New Scourge For Yahoo: Affiliate Mapspam
The question that eClick raised in a recent article about affiliate Mapspam at Yahoo: So, how many instances of affiliate spam are there on Yahoo Local?, motivated me to do a little research. I have published the results at SearchEngineland today. This is a cautionary tale for Yahoo, Google or any company that allows user …
Hitwise confirms Google Maps Market Share Gain from Local 10-Pack Intro
I have noted in the past that Google very much controls their own destiny when it come to traffic to their Maps product. In early January, Heather Hopkins took a year long look at the growth of Google Maps traffic at the expense of Mapquest. Google has often made changes that has improved their traffic …
Local Links of Interest
Google’s LBC: Now With More Fiber– Mike Boland, Kelsey Group A good summary of how the inclusion of video in the Google LBC can benefit local search marketing. Interestingly, he points out that Google was allowing (c)ompanies such as TurnHere and eLocalListing were already uploading this content for their SMB clients via direct partnership, but …
5 Edit Session Limit on new Google Map Edit Feature
This thread appeared in the Google Maps Troubleshooting Group in which Maps Guide Jen confirmed that there is a 5 edit limit to the number of Maps edits that can be made at one time: TOPIC: Editing limits ================================================== == 1 of 3 == Date: Wed, Mar 19 2008 2:04 pm From: keithdtyler@gmail.com I’m going …
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