Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Entries Written By Mike Blumenthal
Is Google Thinking About Abandoning the Zagat Rating System?
Matt Gregory, a local SEO in Minneapolis, recently sent me these screen shots of an obvious test that Google is conducting to assess the relative merit of stars vs. the Zagat display for reviews in the main SERPS. He has been seeing these results on Safari for the Mac consistently from Monday evening through today …
What Should You Tell A Client When Google Loses Their Reviews – A 4 Part Plan
With the recent surge of complaints about “lost” reviews in the forums, Google acknowledging that there were a number of reasons that a review might be tagged as spam and that the car industry in particular was being scrutinized, I thought it might make sense to rerun this May article about coping with lost reviews. …
Step by Step Guide to the Google+ Business/Local Merge Verification Process
Update July 2014: If you are looking to convert a Brand page to a Local page Google has recently released that functionality. Read about it here: Google Now Allows Brand Pages to Become Google+ Local Pages Updated Saturday, Aug 4th. If you already have a Google+ Business page (or create one) then you can now …
Google+ Business and Local Merge Process is NOW LIVE
Google has just announced that the process for integrating your Google+ Local page (aka your Place Page) with the social Google+ Business Page is now live: Verification available for local pages created in Google+ Hey guys, For those of you that have created local Google+ pages (with social features) — good news! Today, you can …
Keywords Not Provided Passes the 60% Mark
If there is still any doubt that keyword detail will completely disappear at some point in the very near future my monthly analytics should dispel it. The analytics for my blog indicate that over 60% of the keywords are no longer provided. While my blog has a more technical readership than many sites and the …
New Local Search Result Display – Google Upgrades the Plus Box
Joy Hawkins has spotted a new type of local display showing for the search Flushing Auto Insurance where additional results are pinned but NOT numbered. Joy hypothesized that the result is a function of rich snippet formatting of the address being on the website. That however does not appear to be the case as neither …
Google+ Local And Review Issues
Since the rollout of Google+ Local the complaints about missing reviews have risen dramatically in the forums. The issues that Google have had right along with losing reviews remain much the same and reviews can go missing for many of the same reasons: – Marked as spam – They are misplaced by Google briefly or …
Google and Your Business forum wrapup – July 19, 2012
Executive summary: A bug fix again, a new bug and a new, old bug reappears. 2 Steps backwards and 1 step forward for the second time. Progress is hard to come by. The details: 1- 00:24 A Bug fix- The analytics are once again visible in the dashboard. The is a new fix of the …
MapMaker Announces A New Bot to Fix Map Maker – Plus Page Inconsistencies
Last week, the Google MapMaker team announced (thanks to Forum TC Treebles for a heads up on this) a new bot whose purpose is to help fix Map Maker – Plus Page inconsistencies. The bot is called the “Mapmaker Syncer”. The purpose of the change is to lay the foundation for better and quicker synchornization between MapMaker …
Procedure for Reinstatement of Removed “We Currently Do Not Support” Locations Still Not Available
Google For Business Community Manager Jade W has just posted this sticky note in the forum: Hey all, The troubleshooter under “My listing has incorrect information” for Google+ Local support (http://goo.gl/6RYFm) is currently unavailable. It’ll be back in about a week. In the meantime, the support team’s working hard to go through the previously submitted …
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