Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Entries Written By Mike Blumenthal
Google and Your Business forum wrapup – June 1, 2012
Best advice in the video: Take a deep breath and don’t worry. Not that much has changed. Best Technical tip: How to Flag an inappropriate review.
7-Pack Upgraded – Stars Are No More, Authorship is King
Google continues to march down the integration road of bringing the new Google+Local pages into the flow of their products. Today the 7-Pack was updated to include the new links and the new review rating system. As you can see from the image if there are more than 10 reviews the new Zagat rating replaces …
Google+Local Retains Community Image Upload But is Missing a Way to Report Abuses
Reader Dimitar Dimitrov sent me this email comment about Google+Local and the attached screen shot of the Google HQ: Hello Mike, I just a reader of your blog (and an SEO freak). I was messing around with the new Google+ Local or whatever they are officially calling it. While me and one of my buddies …
Google + Local: Q’s and some A’s
I was on the road yesterday after the Google + Local roll out so I was unable to answer questions that showed up in the comments on my two posts. Vanessa has been answering a number of questions in the forum so it also makes sense to follow her post there. Rather than answer them …
Google Updates Place Community Edit & Report a Problem Forms
Apparently as part of the migration of Google Places to Google+Local pages, Google has updated & consolidated into one form the input forms for community edits and the Report a Problem form. Now whether you select edit or report a problem in Google + Local, the current Place Page or from with Google Maps you …
Google+ Local Reviews
Google + Local help files are now online. One of the big changes that has occurred with the rollout of Google+ Local has been the change to the Google review environment. Google is moving to the 30 point system developed by Zagat. If there is granular detail Google will show it. If there is not …
Google Places Pages Are No More – But What has Changed?
Today Google announced the integration of business pages with Google + and the demise of their Google Place page. This is a change that has long been anticipated and one that simultaneously gives a business more control over their page AND dramatically enhances the review environment. Greg Sterling has a good overview of how specific …
Google’s New Mobile Search Inadvertently Removes Review Button From Places Page
Google rolled out a very slick update to their iPhone App several days ago. Its fast and essentially makes Place page content almost instantly available. Google apparently upgraded the iPhone Safari app at the same and provided a similarly fast access to the Places data. Unfortunately as you can see in the Google screen shot …
A Prime Example of why a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words
Affiliate Website Photo Current Website Photo (click to read the fine print) Original Website Photo Wikipedia Photo Thanks to Linda Buquet of Catalyst Marketing for additional “research”.
Appeals Court Upholds $150K in Punitive Damages for 3 Fake Reviews
Eric Goldman of te Technology & Marketing Law reports out a recent Missouri Supreme Court ruling that upheld a jury award of $150,00 against an ex-partner that wrote 3 fake reviews on Yahoo & Google about his former business. The ruling should cause competitors leaving fake reviews to take note as it substantially eases the …
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