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Category Archive For "Google Places (Maps & Local)"
TripAdvisor Reviews Now Showing in Places Again
Do you remember the old SNL skit “Point/Counterpoint” (named after the 60 Minutes Segment) which featured Dan Akroyd making scurrilous attacks on Jane Curtain?  Not sure who is whom in this current remake starring Google and Tripadvisor but it sure is taking on the same tenor. 🙂 The recent “its a technical issue, no its …
What is The Real Reason that TripAdvisor Is Limiting Review Content To Places?
It appears that TripAdvisor is in fact currently limiting what and how Google can display TA’s review content on Google Places pages. Yesterday, a statement from them appeared at TNooz.com, a travel industry news blog, that indicated that was the case. I wanted to confirm this with TripAdvisor. Â I asked their PR department the following …
TripAdvisor Blocking Google From Reviews?
The plot thickens in regard to the missing TripAdvisor reviews. TNooz.com, reports that: Google is no longer able to stream in reviews from TripAdvisor to Places pages after the user review giant blocked it. TripAdvisor confirmed the move today in an email, stating that while it continues to evaluate recent changes to Google Places it believes …
Google on Missing TripAdvisor Reviews: “Our team is working to resolve the matter”
On December 4th, TripAdvisor reviews disappeared from Google Places. They are still missing in action but a Google spokesperson has noted the following in relation to the lost reviews: We’re aware of a technical issue in which TripAdvisor reviews are sometimes not appearing in results for Google Places, and our team is working to resolve …
Illusory Laptop Repair – A Most Elegant Google Places Hack
This story of intrigue comes to you via a discovery of Eric Petreska, the quite brilliant head of of Maximum Results Marketing, a local search marketing firm in Spring Hill Fl. When you search for virus removal Olean NY you see an interesting result. Not our listing for a service my brother provides…. no, the …
TripAdvisor Reviews Missing from Google Places – Bug or Kerfuffle?
Noun: Â A social imbroglio or brouhaha. An organizational misunderstanding leading to accusations and defensiveness. Since December 4th, there have been a number of reports (here, here and via email) that TripAdvisor reviews are not showing in Google Places. A quick search of the Maps index shows this in fact to be the case with TripAdvisor …
Google Places Search – Before and After Dashboard Analytics Comparison
Google Places search was released on October 27 with a great deal of fanfare and commentary. It has been available for over a month and the Places Dashboard analytics data can now provide some insight into the impact of the new display. I have assembled an overview of the impressions and actions based of the …
Google Micro SERPS: Only 4 (Places) Results Showing
Rasmus Himmelstrup, of SeoAnalyst, and Sebastian Socha, of KennstDueinen.de, are both reporting from Europe a new Places Search Everything result that is showing only four search results on a page. In Sebastian’s screenshot all four of those results were blended results while in Rasmus’s 3 of the 4 were blended results I had to look …
Daniel Tunkelang Leaving Google Maps to Join LinkedIn
Daniel Tunkelang has announced on his blog today that he is leaving his position at Google Maps for an exciting research position at LinkedIn. Daniel was hired at Google about a year ago. There he worked on authority pages and the of mapping businesses to their official home pages. When Daniel was first hired at …
Google Places Search – 8, 9 or More Local Results to a Page – This is not a test, I repeat, this is not a test…
It appears that Google is willing to fill the results page with local Places Search results if they are in fact the most relevant results on a given search. Mike Ramsey, our intrepid Idaho local marketer, alerted me to the occurence of 9 local results showing on the search: Boston Personal Injury Lawyer. I ran …
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