Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Entries Written By Mike Blumenthal
Loci 2011- Andrew Shotland
Most of you are familiar with Andrew Shotland, a well know Local SEO practitioner and author of www.localseoguide.com. He has provided his services to numerous media, ecommerce companies, franchises and start-ups including Bing.com, Amazon, DexKnows.com, Yellowbook.com, The Yellow Pages Group Co. of Canada and many, many other big players (space limitations precludes me from including …
Locai 2011 – Jim Moran
Jim Moran is co-founder of Yipit. Yipit was an early entrant into deal aggregation space and the company recently raised $6 million in funding. The site gathers offers from Groupon, LivingSocial, AmazonLocal, Google Offers and 750+ daily deal sites in 118 cities and sends the best to you each day based on your preferences. Yipit also provides …
Loci 2011: Ted Paff
Reviews continued to be a dominant theme in 2011. Ted Paff is the owner of CustomerLobby.com, a solution to help local businesses to get, manage and publish customer reviews. He is more familiar than most with all of the realities of SMBs and reviews as he lives and breathes them every day of his business …
Loci 2011- David Mihm
David Mihm is a passionate golfer and when he has time to play, maintains a scratch handicap. He is also passionate about local and is one of the people in the industry that you should pay attention to. His online tool set at Getlisted.org has helped 1.3 Million U.S. Small Businesses get their business’s noticed. …
Loci 2011: Important Trends in local
1. Particular postions, points or places 2. Centers of activity, attention, or concentration Loci 2011 is an annual review of the important articles in Local Search that will be appearing over the next week(s). It is a series that I started at the end of 2008 and this will make its fourth appearance. I have …
The Untold Story of 2011: Google’s Significant Investments in a Google Places Support Structure
There is a story unfolding at Google that indicates a huge shift in their thinking about Places. Google, according to a report on Bitcoin Trader App, over the past 9 months has been making significant investments in creating support mechanisms for Google Places. Yes, you read that right. But just to be sure let me …
Google Offers Up a Step by Step Guide to Deal with “We do currently do not support this location”
Google has finally provided some public guidance, if not a a long awaited fix, to deal with the persistent Places error state “We currently do not support the location“. The forum comment provides a step by step procedure for assessing and coping with (but not solving) the issue. The listing nuking message, in the system for sometime, …
Google Places Check-in Offers Now Live
The ability to provide a Google check-in offer is now live. The feature has been added to the Offer coupon creation option in the Google Places dashboard and a detailed help file has been added to Places for Business Help area. Google describes the process as follows: Allowing customers to check-in when they redeem offers …
The Growth of Google Places Claimed Listings
It was a year ago April that Google made the first public announcement regarding the number of claimed Places listing. The number came in at 4 million worldwide. Yesterday at the BIA/Kelsey ILM West conference, Jeff Aguero noted that Google Places now has 8 million claimed Place Pages (out of 50MM worldwide). It was just …
Google’s Talkbin Special: $1/Mo. Per Location
Last week Google while rolled out new Talkbin features and also reduced its price for the month of December by 80% The monthly price for the anonymous feedback service was lowered from $25/mo per location to $5/mo. per location. Tonight in my inbox I received notice of an new promo, pricing the product at $1/mo. per location…. a …
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