Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Category Archive For "Google Places (Maps & Local)"
Local Links of Interest
F.T.C. to Review Online Ads and Privacy – NY Times Business Users Want GPS in Smart Phone – JD Power – Information Week summary Garmin trumps TomTom bid for TeleAtlas – The Register The Potentially Radical Potential of UBL (universal business listing) -Greg Sterling Drill Down on WebVisible Local Data-Greg Sterling
Ghoulgle-411
Google may be getting big, and they may do some evil but unlike Microsoft they can still manage to make me smile and even laugh with some of their marketing. Goog-411 started adding a range of introduction voices in August (see The many voices of Goog411, dude!) including children’s voices and voices with distinctive accents. …
Google Click to Call making guest appearances in effort to revive career
It appears that Google is once again experimenting with click to call in both Maps yesterday in India’s Google Local) and Adwords (reported earlier this month in the US). The phone call is a critical step in the purchase process for consumers that start their search on the internet and according to Nielson research reported …
Google Coupons Now has searchable interface
Google Coupons are one of the great underpromoted features of Google Maps. It came, we saw and it didn’t conquer. Not because it couldn’t but it just seems to be one of those Google technologies that is languishing in the backwaters of some engineer’s 20% project.A recent query at the Google Maps for Business Group …
Problems in the Google Local Business Center: Awaiting Next Update
Here are today’s topics in the Google Maps for Business Blog: •waiting for business listing update •Awaiting Next Update since Oct 5 2007 •Why isn’t my business showing? •Awaiting next update •How to correct listing errors (bulk upload succeeded, but some errors remain) •Awaiting next update, Which decade? •Making my business visable •Awaiting Next Update …
First Google Billboard now gone
On September 18th the first of several Google billboards was spotted in Olean, NY. That billboard has now been removed, only 1 month later. Curious if the campaign has ended or if the boards were moved to more fertile territory. There were two other billboards within 10 miles of here, I guess I will have …
Goog-411 Gathering data for gPhone’s Targeted Ads?
Could Bill Slawski’s reporting on a new Google patent provide answers to many of the questions about Goog-411? I have been curious about the recent Goog-411’s recent billboard campaign and the unusual distribution of the billboards. The boards have been reported in very limited geographic areas around San Francisco and Western New York with showings …
Google Local Business Center listings propagate like rabbits
Birds do it, bees do it and apparently Google’s Local Data does it too….recreates your business record like crazy. Some sort of asexual digital reproduction I suppose as some business records start appearing in Google Maps multiple times…not just once or twice but possibly as many as 4 or more (users report as many as …
Google Phone
NY Times (reg. req’d) has an interesting article on the coming gPhone in which they contend: •It is an operating system to compete with Microsfot Mobile and nothardware •It will be an open source linux based phone environment as a means to “take the economics out of the Windows Mobile business”. •It will be unveiled …
Does the Google Bulk Upload Change mean Less Mapspam?
On September 27th, SearchEngineTigers.com published a letter from Google titled: Change In Support for Business Locations in which Google indicated that: If you are currently submitting Business Locations bulk uploads for inclusion in Google Maps via Google Base, please begin submitting your updated Business Locations bulk uploads via the Google Local Business Center found here: …
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