Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Category Archive For "Google Places (Maps & Local)"
Add Google Coupons to your main search results via Google Co-op
Google Coupons now offers the ability to return Coupons in your main search results via the Google Co-op. When you select the above button from Google Coupon search you will be asked to log in and taken to this page at Google Co-op beta for a subscription confirmation: You can add information created by Coupons …
Goog-411 calls now completed by bandwidth.com
Reader, Bob Brenly, has pointed out that Goog-411 calls are now completed by bandwidth.com in both the US and Canada as announced on any Goog-411 call. I am curious about this change. Have they switched call completion providers? Why is it necessary to declare the provider at all?
Local Links of Interest
• Jaiku, Android and Google’s Mobile Ads • What Google has planned for Jaiku? Because his mobile phone is able to broadcast the location automatically (even if it’s not very precise), the user posts more than a message. The text can be connected to his location and create a list of preferences for each place …
Google now promoting Google Coupons with AdWords
Google has started to advertise their Coupon search capability with Google Adwords (thanks to FathomSeo for great screen shots of this and the heads up). When searching on “pizza coupons”, the Pizza Coupons adword results take you to your local ads apparently based on your user profile and/or location. I for example, was shown coupons …
Google Map’s Coupons: My Coupon is bigger than Your Coupon
Today Google has confirmed that ValPak has certain coupon size and layout benefits that are not available to all businesses when they upload their coupons to the Local Business Center. There are currently three levels of coupons creation that we know about: 1-Local Business Center where a business can create coupons one at a time. …
Local Links of Interest
Google may be a distance second in mapping to Mapquest, be struggling to gain a solid number one position in Local search, have but one cell tower and 0% market share of the cellphone OS system market but you wouldn’t know it from their coverage in the search and mainstream press. They seem to be …
Google Maps Tidbits
While in Canada last week I noticed that: 1- The Goog-411 stated that calls were completed by bandwidth.com 2- In Google Coupons there was an option to sign up for an opt-in for Coupons to appear in the main Google Search engine results…. 3-And on another very minor I noted while there, Google Maps has …
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 …
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