Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Category Archive For "Google Places (Maps & Local)"
Google Plus to Gain Check-In Offers Via Places Offers?
While perusing the Google Places Offer Help files I found a page discussing Check-in Offers via Google+. It notes: If your customers have to visit your locations in order to do business with you, you can request that they check-in on Google+ in order to redeem your offers. They can choose to share the check-in publicly …
Google Places: Non-compliant Offers Being Rejected
Google has started rejecting Offers from Google Places for quality and policy violations. Business owners that have had Offers rejected will receive an email with a clear indication of which guideline was not satisfied. Offers that do not provide actual % discounts or dollar value off will be suspended. Google has upgraded their Google Help …
Google Integrating Author Information Results with Google Plus in main SERPS
I know that Google has been integrating author results in the main search for a while and late last month tweaked those results with the addition of circles . But Google is now linking the Author Information image in the main search directly with recent Google Plus posts in a results much like the Plus Places integration …
More Examples Of Plus Integrated Into Local Search Results
Several additional instances of Google Plus integration into local search results have been found by Renan Cesar, a Brazilian search marketer. It has also been brought to my attention by Sebastian Socha that examples are now visible in Germany. In both of these examples, the images, when clicked, go to an intermediate search result highlighting the appropriate Plus …
Is Google Starting to Integrate Google Plus Pages with Places Search Results?
The ever observant Plamen and his friend Stacy sent along a Places Search screenshot that clearly shows a Google Plus Page icon next to a Places search result: When you click on the icon it shows a Google Plus Page for a different Transmission service. It makes sense that Google would integrate Google Plus pages …
Rogue’s Gallery of Inappropriate Bubble Ads
This search for “Child Protection Services, NY” provides an obvious example of Google’s inability to target a specific ad against a specific place with their new Info Bubble Ads. It provides great fodder for my second installment of the Rogue’s Gallery of Inappropriate Bubble Ads… There is some irony that the Archdiocese of New York* …
The Foibles & Fallacies Of Place Based Bubble Ads
Should every place & business that exists in our everyday life be used to sell against? Should that specific, very real entity with its history of sentiment and purpose be leveraged to shill for something without their knowledge? And if so what is appropriate to sell against that place? I asked myself those questions as I …
Google Maps Reflects Our Painful Reality- Ads EVERYWHERE
As the jokes were flying about how distasteful Google’s new Map’s info ad venue was, I became curious as to exactly how unseemly it really was. So I looked. As Glen Gabe pointed out it may very well be necessary for SMB’s to take out ads defensively. Greg Sterling suggested that Google think about a …
Google Maps: No Stone Unturned in Search of Ad Space
As Facebook pushes the boundaries of privacy, Google is pushing the boundaries of ad placement. Like all corporations, Google needs to respond to the demands of a market that requires ever increasing income growth. One way to do that in the absence of significant page view growth is to monetize every remaining square inch of …
Google Places Basics: Two Business Listings Or One?
Many small shop owners think of themselves as being in more than one business. They have (perhaps loosely and imprecisely) marketed themselves under two or more brands into their local market and the allure of doing so on Google Places is strong. Should they continue to do so? Scott of BreakTheSeal in the UK asked …
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