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Category Archive For "Google Places (Maps & Local)"
How to Use Google Places New RSS Feed To Automate Your Review Spam Farm
Last week I struggled to understand how to properly use the newly introduced RSS feed import feature in the Google Places Hotpot feature that allows you to quickly review places of interest to you. I struggled with the interface and the instructions wondering exactly which reviewer would succeed with the task but along the way …
What the SMB REALLY Thinks of Google Places
A poster just left this comment on another post but I felt that it so captured the frustration of the new initiate to the bizarro world of Google Places that I wanted to give it more visibility: Mike, Can I just say, with a monumental sigh of gratitude, Thththank youuu. and Phew!. Having tried …
hReview Testimonials from SMB Sites Starting to Show in Places
Since last October when Google noted in their FAQ that Rich Snippet testimonials might flow into a Place Page, many webmasters took the time to mark up their client’s sites in hReview. As Andrew Shotland has recently noted and my observations have confirmed, these marked up reviews have slowly been making their way onto Places …
A Brief History of Features in Google Local, Maps and Places
I developed this presentation for a conference I presented at earlier this year. I have not included my notes or any context to the deck but I think it stands alone as a quick look back thru the wayback wacky machine at Google’s local developments that I found significant. For those of you that think …
Google Maps & Places Tidbits
Google Maps Enhances Interface Yam Regev pointed out that Google Maps has upgraded the UI twith a stacked image and a fluid visual roll over that highlights the listing the pin highlights on the Map: Offers Tab Removed WorldWide Update from Google: To clarify, we have not removed the Offers tab for any regions — …
Google Places: Access your Places reviews as a feed – NOT!
I saw this tweet from Google last night and had a flush of excitement, at least for a second, as I thought that Google had finally solved a perennial problem for SMBs; how to track their reviews in Places. I immediately rushed over to their post, thinking I would stay up late to write up a …
Consumer Attitudes Towards Recommendations of Local Business
Bightlocal has released their findings from their Local Consumer Review Survey 2010, Part 3. The survey highlights some interesting findings – 27% of consumers have recommended a local business on Facebook – rising to 32% in female consumers & also in younger consumers (aged 16-34) Reliability, Professionalism & Friendliness are the most important traits that …
Google Places Continues Places & Hotel Booking Upgrades
Google continues to make upgrades to Places and Maps having recently announced a wider rollout of Google Business Photos. As noted last week there have been a number of changes/additions to Places pages themselves. Adam Dorfman of SimPartners pointed out this additional visual upgrade to the Hotel booking feature. The new emphasis makes the feature …
TechCrunch Interview with Marissa Mayer
This interview appeared yesterday in TechCrunch and is worth a watch. Takeaways? * Mayer while not the top dog in Local, she is becoming its public face * Google will be focusing all new local product developments in the context of their two core products, Maps and Places * Latitude is just a social view …
30% of all Restaurant Queries on Google Are Mobile
In a very good online webinar that Google offered called Are You Mobile Ready? they shared some interesting internal data on the percentage of mobile queries. The charts show the % of mobile queries to total search queries from January 2007 through January of this year. Previously Bing had noted that as many as 50% …
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