Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Entries Written By Mike Blumenthal
Google Maps: Edit at your own risk – Google acknowledges bug
Google has recently acknowledged a serious bug when modifying a local business record in Google’s Local Business Center: == 1 of 1 == Date: Fri, Nov 16 2007 2:20 pm From: “Maps Guide Jen” Hi All, I just wanted to soothe any alarm caused by this known issue: You go in to edit your listing …
Google Coupons to expand via Pump??
As oil prices inch toward $100 a barrel and the price of gasoline is once again rising towards $4.00/gal, it appears that Google will step into the breach and offer stress relief via directions. The AP reports in Latest Additive at Gas Pumps: Google that “As part of a partnership to be announced Wednesday, the …
How many Google Coupons are there?
The new ability to search Google Coupons offers an intriguing glimpse through the window into the world of Google’s coupon efforts. Coupons have the potential to both drive local usage and further monetize local business data for Google. With internet search, Coupons could provide a new interface/access point for visitation and searching of local business …
Local Links of Interest
F.T.C. to Review Online Ads and Privacy – NY Times Business Users Want GPS in Smart Phone – JD Power – Information Week summary Garmin trumps TomTom bid for TeleAtlas – The Register The Potentially Radical Potential of UBL (universal business listing) -Greg Sterling Drill Down on WebVisible Local Data-Greg Sterling
Ghoulgle-411
Google may be getting big, and they may do some evil but unlike Microsoft they can still manage to make me smile and even laugh with some of their marketing. Goog-411 started adding a range of introduction voices in August (see The many voices of Goog411, dude!) including children’s voices and voices with distinctive accents. …
Google Click to Call making guest appearances in effort to revive career
It appears that Google is once again experimenting with click to call in both Maps yesterday in India’s Google Local) and Adwords (reported earlier this month in the US). The phone call is a critical step in the purchase process for consumers that start their search on the internet and according to Nielson research reported …
Google Coupons Now has searchable interface
Google Coupons are one of the great underpromoted features of Google Maps. It came, we saw and it didn’t conquer. Not because it couldn’t but it just seems to be one of those Google technologies that is languishing in the backwaters of some engineer’s 20% project.A recent query at the Google Maps for Business Group …
Problems in the Google Local Business Center: Awaiting Next Update
Here are today’s topics in the Google Maps for Business Blog: •waiting for business listing update •Awaiting Next Update since Oct 5 2007 •Why isn’t my business showing? •Awaiting next update •How to correct listing errors (bulk upload succeeded, but some errors remain) •Awaiting next update, Which decade? •Making my business visable •Awaiting Next Update …
First Google Billboard now gone
On September 18th the first of several Google billboards was spotted in Olean, NY. That billboard has now been removed, only 1 month later. Curious if the campaign has ended or if the boards were moved to more fertile territory. There were two other billboards within 10 miles of here, I guess I will have …
Goog-411 Gathering data for gPhone’s Targeted Ads?
Could Bill Slawski’s reporting on a new Google patent provide answers to many of the questions about Goog-411? I have been curious about the recent Goog-411’s recent billboard campaign and the unusual distribution of the billboards. The boards have been reported in very limited geographic areas around San Francisco and Western New York with showings …
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