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Google Boost Now Becoming Adwords Express
Mike Ramsey of NiftyMarketing, a local search marketer from Idaho, sent along this screen shot reflecting a name change to the Boost product: ——- ——- The change has not yet made it over to the Boost Help pages. Certainly it makes sense from a branding perspective to leverage Google’s well known, existing ad brand …
Google Places: Integrating some of the great information that’s been buried
With the rollout of the changes on the Places page and display of Local Universal results on the main search results page Google noted that going forward that they would be “Integrating some of the great information that’s been buried on Place pages into your web search experience across all Google platforms“. We had a …
Google Places Gains New Ally in Review Battle with Yelp
Google has been in a pitched tussle with Yelp for quite some time. Google introduced reviews to local in 2007 and the fun began. Yelp reviews in Google, Yelp reviews out of Google, Yelp’s anger at Google’s use of their content, Google contrition, a large offer by Google and a failed buyout, Yelp reviews out of …
Google Places and the Future
The Google Lat Long Blog has formally announced the changes to Places that we saw roll out earlier in the day with their normal happy talk: Making constant tweaks and adjustments to our user interfaces and overall user experience have always been the norm at Google, and you may have recently heard about our renewed effort …
Changes in Google Places and Reviews – What Does it Mean for the SMB?
Google Places has once again “mixed it up” in the review arena. They are no longer showing the count for 3rd party reviews on the main search page and they are only displaying the count for Google reviews. They are still showing the link to the main 3rd party review sites on the main search results …
Articles from Around the Web on the New Places Layout
MAJOR Google Places Update – 3rd Party Reviews and Citations Removed or De-Emphasized – Linda Buquet’s take on the impact of reducing 3rd party review counts vis a vis dentists (and Demand Force) Google Places Interface and Reviews Changes – Optilocal’s great visual guide to the changes with a few things I hadn’t yet seen. Google Places …
Google Places Testing New Layout
Update: This appears to be a rollout not a test. With all of the system wide quirks of late in Google Places, there has been speculation that the under the hood snafus were a reflection of bigger and more visible changes to come. This screen shot could be one of those changes. Sent to me …
Google Places Search No Longer Showing 3rd Party Review Counts?
Perhaps a small change but in light of the many quirks of late, it could also indicate more changes to come. It seems that Places search results showing in the main search results are now only showing the review count for Google only reviews. Third party reviews, while still linked are not being counted in …
Google Boost Bid Pricing Will Baffle the SMB
Google’s Boost advertising product was meant to be a dead simple way for a small business that had claimed their Places listing, to place a locally highlighted ad onto the front page of Google. It is simple to get started and in some situations, where the targeting is accurate and the price per click is …
TripAdvisor Sends Conflicted Message: We Can Incent Reviews but Business Can’t
The review world is full of contradictions. Many review sites, TripAdvisor included, have strong penalties if a business is caught incenting reviews. The prohibition makes sense in that an incentive is likely to lead a reviewer to generate a low quality, less than thoughtful review in order to receive the incentive. There is also the …
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