Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Entries Written By Mike Blumenthal
Google Maps offers Instant User Created Locations
For an update and detailed slide show on this feature see: Google Maps: Everyone can create a business listing Jean-Noël Anderruthy of the GoogleXXL blog alerted me to the Google Operating System blog reporting of a new Google Maps feature that allows users to create new content to be added to Maps. I have yet …
How many Google Coupons are there? Up 54%
In November of 2oo7, I used Google’s coupon search function to estimate the total number of coupons that Google was showing in major markets. Google introduced the coupon program in August 2006 and they announced a partnership with ValPak to help promote coupon use shortly after. Here are the numbers of coupons in NY, Chicago, …
iPhone SDK: a tipping point for Local Search?
Apple’s announcement of their software development kit was big in the tech news arena but got scant coverage in the search world. From where I sit, it appears to be a seminal event that will define local search for the next decade and will lead to a dramatic upsurge in hyper local searches. There was …
Local Links of Interest
Milestone Talks To Matt Cutts From Google: Best Practices For Promoting Hotels Online. – Milestone, 4Hotliers Question: We have been doing a great effort for mobile devices and I think in the past year I have been struggling with what is going to be the future? Should mobile sites be designed for iPhones or SmartPhones? …
How to get help with your Google Maps problems
Google Maps has a tendency to be a bit “quirky”. You never know if the problem is something the business owner has done or whether you are running up against Google Map’s unusually “beta type” personality*. Besides this blog and myself there are a number of resources that you might want to review in your …
Google Maps: Business listings disappear
Over the past several weeks I had experienced a business listing that was present in the Authoritative Onebox, present in the Local 10 Pack (Michael Donnelly Interior Design – Buffalo), but was nowhere to be found in the Maps listing even when selecting the “more” info link showing in the Authoritative OneBox or the 10 …
Google Maps Local Business Center now offering instant listings?
One of the dreaded aspects of dealing with the Local Business Center in the past was the long delay of the PIN/postcard validation and the listing process in the Maps business directory. The phrase Awaiting Next Update took on a sinister character that often meant 6 to 8 weeks delay and sometimes never for the …
Google Plus Box – Where does the (wrong) data come from?
One of the more vexing problems in local search has been erroneous address & phone data showing for a bricks & mortar location in the main Google search results in the Plus Box. For a screen shot of the issue click here. Small business owners have flocked to the Google Maps for Business Group in …
Local Links of Interest
KML: HTML for the Geoweb – Christopher Schmidt, TechnicalRamblings KML has become the “HTML†of the Geographic Web. With limited semantic meaning, a combination of mostly-human understandable XML tags for the majority of the usages, widespread use and abuse for purposes far beyond the original thoughts and intentions of the designers, and more, KML fits …
Google and the PlusBox Blues
The Google Maps for Business Group has had countless requests for help with erroneous Plus Boxes like this one: ================================================= TOPIC: “+” Sign shows Wrong Address & Phone # in Google Search Results! HELP! ================================================= Date: Mon, Mar 3 2008 12:10 pm From: rjfny Hi Jen, Here is the link to our search results page …
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