Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Category Archive For "Facebook Places"
Google MyBusiness Now Surfacing Web Verify Option
If a local business had a website verified in the Google Search Console prior to verifying in Local, Google would on occasion auto verify the local listing without the need for a post card or phone call. Previously this would just happen with no forward facing interface and would often be a surprise to the claimant. Now, …
Loci 2012- Justin Sanger
Justin is the Founder and CEO of SupportLocal. He is recognized as a long-time innovator and leader in local search and social. In 2003, he founded LocalLaunch, a leading search engine marketing platform and products company. LocalLaunch was acquired by RH Donnelley/Dex One in 2006. Speaking around the world on the topics of local search …
Facebook Graph Search and Local From Across the Web- Let the Fight Begin
Facebook with the rollout of Graph Search (terrible name) is staking its ground in local search. Here are selected comments from Matt McGee, Danny Sullivan & Greg Sterling that I thought summarized the situation well: Greg Sterling What Does FB (Graph) Search Mean for Local? If Facebook’s execution is successful and the UX is good …
The Disconnect Between What SMBs Use Facebook For and What Consumers Use it For
Last week at Kelsey it was reported that an “astounding 41.7% of SMBs surveyed by BIA/Kelsey say they see Facebook most importantly as an acquisition tool”. Astounding is right. That is a huge disconnect with reality. My recent survey of how consumers find lawyers tallied that 2.1% of the US adult internet users would start their …
Local SMB Survey: 68% Have Facebook Pages, 28% Have Claimed Google Places Listing
As part of Getlisted Local University we occasionally survey the attendees. We ask several questions to assess their level of knowledge about search in general and local search in particular. This survey sample size is very small and self selected from those that registered for the seminar. The participants are primarily small and medium businesses …
Google Places – You Are Not Rejected, Not Suspended – You are in Places Purgatory
When does the word active simply not mean active in Google Places? When you are in Google Places Purgatory. Wikipedia: “purgatory”, derived through Anglo and Old French from the Latin word purgatorium.[8] has come to refer also to a wide range of historical and modern conceptions of postmortem suffering short of everlasting damnation,[1] and is used, in …
Facebook Places – Where are they?
What do a popular Anaheim florist, a prominent law office in a large urban area, a rural web development firm and a large retail bank/atm location all have in common? They all are in the Localeze index and yet Facebook Places does not know about their existence. Why this occurs and how many businesses are missing …
Reviews Are Dead! Long Live Reviews – Will Facebook Places Change the Review Landscape?
It is early in the game and folks are just digesting what Facebook Places is all about but I was struck by a Twitter comment by Seb Provencher (@sebprovencher): With the FB Places launch, we can officially say it: merchant/place reviews are dead. Status updates are the new merchant reviews. So I asked several folks …
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