Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Entries Written By Mike Blumenthal
Nominees in Local Search category: 2008 SEMMY Awards
The following are the nominees in the Local Search category for the 2008 SEMMY Awards. The judge(s) will narrow this group down to 5-6 finalists. Congratulations to all nominees! Thanks for the recognition! Local Search Interviews, Information, and Resources Michael Gray, Graywolf | 2/5/07 Location Prominence and Differences in Local OneBox and Google Maps Bill …
Weather Channel Interactive Introduces New Weather Mapplet for Google Maps
Weather Channel Interactive Introduces New Weather Mapplet for Google – by The Weather Channel, GISUser.com “The Weather Channel Interactive Introduces New Weather Mapplet for Google Maps. The Weather mapplet on Google Maps will be a part of the Featured Content section in the My Maps utility. The mapplet can be found by visiting maps.google.com. To …
Google acknowledges Adword experiment with Local Address
A Google rep has responded to an eamil inquiry about the reported inclusion of the local address in Adword ads (reported here and here and here) and acknowledged a limited experiment. The source within Google confirmed in an email that they are testing Ads that include the additional address line with a small set of …
Hitwise Data: Mapquest Giveth & Google Maps Taketh
Heather Hopkins’ analysis of MapQuest and Google Maps traffic trends in her post GoogleMaps Making Inroads Against Leader, Mapquest reveals more than is obvious at first glance about Google’s market share gain in the maps race. While Yahoo’s share decline has been steady over the year, Google’s jumps appear to have come at the immediate …
Local Links of Interest
Local SEO 2008 Predicitons – Andrew Shortland, LOC@LSEOGuide. Andrew is doing the fumes of Delphi Oracle thing. Google Maps Gaining On Market Leader Mapquest – Greg Sterling, SearchEngineLand provides some great analysis about Google neutrality and technology in the maps market share mayhem. iPhone specific web sites — do they make sense? – Martin Kleppmann, …
Google Maps gaining market share vs. MapQuest
Heather Hopkins at Hitwise has analyzed MapQuest and Google Maps traffic trends in her post GoogleMaps Making Inroads Against Leader, Mapquest that clearly demonstrates how Google controls their own traffic destiny. Her main points: • US visits to Maps websites is up 10% year on year and MapQuest is still the leader, receiving more than …
Google Maps: The case of the Missing Citysearch Reviews
Maps Guide Jen has provided an update on the missing CitySearch reviews and the missing CitySearch directory entries in Maps: TOPIC: Restaurant reviews from CitySearch have gone missing ======================================================== Date: Tues, Jan 8 2008 9:21 am From: “Maps Guide Jen” Hi Mike, I believe this is a different issue from the Beefeater’s restaurant. As …
Google Map’s Business Location Bulk Upload Now Working
The Google LBC Bulk Upload feature has been down, its been up, its been down again. It now appears to be up. It was reported in Google Groups- Maps for Business this afternoon that the bulk upload feature is now working again
Google Search – Just how local can it go?
In a post today, Google Letting Addresses into AdWords? Greg Sterling pointed out that Google appears to be allowing street address as a 4th line in the adwords (see Therapia lower right in image below). As Barry Schwartz points out below he first saw this in early December. What struck me about the search result …
The 2007 Rubber Chicken (aka the Columbo) Awards
The awards and standings for this year’s Rubber Chicken Award have been published at SEL! And the winner is…. Thanks to everyone who submitted articles, voted and to the judges for making this happen.
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