Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Entries Written By Mike Blumenthal
Understanding Google Maps nominated for Search Blog Award 2007
SearchEngineJournal.com once again has their annual Vote for the Search Blogs Awards posted and Understanding Google Maps and Yahoo Local has been nominated in the Best Local Search Blog category. Thanks to Miriam of SolasWebDesign and Frank of LocallyType.com for nominating this blog. I really appreciate the recognition. It has been a fun year for …
Google Maps: Bulk Upload now broken in LBC?
Update 01/04/08 According to MapsGod Jen this has now been fixed. Jen has apparently been on leave and yesterday returned to the Google Maps for Business Group with a vengeance! In today’s Google Maps For Business Owners another bug in the Local Business Center seems to have been confirmed. This time the bulk upload procedure …
Local Links of Interest
8 White-Hot Trends Lift Local Search in ’08 – Michael Boland, Search Engine Watch Eight local search trends will rock the search engine world in ’08. Here are the ones with the most momentum as we roll into the New Year Amazon Kindle does Maps – Joshua Topolsky, Engadget Users of the device have been …
Rubber Chicken Award – (aka The Columbo) Top 10 Finalists – Vote now
Voting is now open for the People’s Choice Awards for the Top Humor Article of 2007.The code has been debugged, the secret algo has been run, the titles have been randomly ordered and we now have determined the Top 10 finalists for the 2007 Rubber Chicken Award for Humor in the SEM industry. The judges …
NY Times: On-line Coupon Growth 6%
Interesting article in the NY Times today, Shifting Coupons, From Clip and Save to Point and Click about the leading print media coupon company’s move into on-line copupons. Vallassis Communications is creating a new coupon portal & brand: RedPlum.com to cater to woman “discount seekers”. According to the aricle : RedPlum will join a small …
A new Blumenthals.com Blog: Small linux deployments
Our newest blog, Small linux deployments, is all about the technical side of operating a local linux-based hosting and web design company and is written by Erek Dyskant. Erek is our System analyst, sys admin, programmer, hardware and general technical guru, a sort of Renaissance man of the Linux world. He has worked with us, …
Google Maps: LBC Coupon Bug?
This Google Local Business center coupon bug was reported today in Google Maps for Business Group. I have not verified this but there have been a number of reports of coupon problems. TOPIC: Coupon post ==================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Mon, Dec 24 2007 7:50 am From: The Refinisher I asked a similar …
Google Maps now with PhotoSpammy Links?
This came in today from a reader: I ran across this new twist with InfoUSA & Google Maps and thought I’d pass it in. Do you recall when Google Local/Maps added a photo provided by InfoUSA to many local business profiles? It’s the default image for most companies. A couple days ago, I clicked on …
Nominations for Rubber Chicken SEM Humor Award (aka the Columbo Award)
Updated 12/24/07 Our nominations are in. We have closed the nomination period and are now moving to the next stage of the process. The final standings will be announced before the end of the year at SEL!Take a look, give us your reader’s choice nomination for the best…..They range from the mundane to the profane. …
Wanted: Colombo assistants
For all of you that are hot on the trail of Mapspammers this post might help to speed things up : Hack Google (Maps) URLs for Quick Searching Basically, the multi-step process of going to Google [Maps], typing in an address, clicking submit, etc., can be avoided by just putting all your info directly into …
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