Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Entries Written By Mike Blumenthal
Local Links of Interest
Google Maps Adds Terrain View, Replaces Hybrid View (Barry Schwartz – SearchEngineLand) The Mobile Internet: Still Years Away? (Take Greg Sterling’s Survey on Local Mobile use) Internet Yellow Pages: Worth The Effort? (Chris Silver Smith – SearchEngineLand) Informal Poll: Ask Best for Local Search (Greg Sterling – Screenwerk)
Salvdore Dali Museum notes surreal nature of Google Maps
This posting appeared today in the Google Maps for Business Owners Group TOPIC: Address incorrect on listing. Changes requested months ago… ========================================================== == 1 of 1 == Date: Mon, Nov 26 2007 8:13 am From: “ecrispen@salvadordalimuseum.org” If you search for “Salvador Dali Museum” it provides the incorrect address. And has for a very long time. …
Add Google Coupons to your main search results via Google Co-op
Google Coupons now offers the ability to return Coupons in your main search results via the Google Co-op. When you select the above button from Google Coupon search you will be asked to log in and taken to this page at Google Co-op beta for a subscription confirmation: You can add information created by Coupons …
Local Links of Interest: Local Search News goes mainstream
It is fascinating to me to see the emergence of local search & local mobile to be appearing so prominently in the mainstream press. In today’s online edition of the NY Times, the following three headlines from the technology section were featured on the front page: A Web Tour Will Show Stores From the Inside …
Goog-411 calls now completed by bandwidth.com
Reader, Bob Brenly, has pointed out that Goog-411 calls are now completed by bandwidth.com in both the US and Canada as announced on any Goog-411 call. I am curious about this change. Have they switched call completion providers? Why is it necessary to declare the provider at all?
Local Links of Interest
• Jaiku, Android and Google’s Mobile Ads • What Google has planned for Jaiku? Because his mobile phone is able to broadcast the location automatically (even if it’s not very precise), the user posts more than a message. The text can be connected to his location and create a list of preferences for each place …
Google now promoting Google Coupons with AdWords
Google has started to advertise their Coupon search capability with Google Adwords (thanks to FathomSeo for great screen shots of this and the heads up). When searching on “pizza coupons”, the Pizza Coupons adword results take you to your local ads apparently based on your user profile and/or location. I for example, was shown coupons …
Google Map’s Coupons: My Coupon is bigger than Your Coupon
Today Google has confirmed that ValPak has certain coupon size and layout benefits that are not available to all businesses when they upload their coupons to the Local Business Center. There are currently three levels of coupons creation that we know about: 1-Local Business Center where a business can create coupons one at a time. …
Local Links of Interest
Google may be a distance second in mapping to Mapquest, be struggling to gain a solid number one position in Local search, have but one cell tower and 0% market share of the cellphone OS system market but you wouldn’t know it from their coverage in the search and mainstream press. They seem to be …
Google Maps Tidbits
While in Canada last week I noticed that: 1- The Goog-411 stated that calls were completed by bandwidth.com 2- In Google Coupons there was an option to sign up for an opt-in for Coupons to appear in the main Google Search engine results…. 3-And on another very minor I noted while there, Google Maps has …
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