Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Category Archive For "Google Places (Maps & Local)"
Google Local: Train Wreck at the Junction
Google Local is a veritable train wreck for business listing management. The Dashboard is in a state of non functioning disrepair, the + Page path to listing management is full of bugs. The current business types supported by the feature set in the +Page environment is extremely limited. The rules for business listings in MapMaker …
Google Acquires Incentive Targeting For Coupon Programs
Mike Dudas of Google just tweeted that Google has acquired Incentive Targeting to power highly targeted manufacturer and private label coupon programs. He noted that “Incentive Targeting..[does] for retail couponing what Google [does] for online advertising: make simple, relevant, measurable, & effective” It would appear that the acquisition is for both talent and IP. And …
Ah… the Irony Of Google Local – International number handling issue is solved, no it isn’t
There has been a persistent bug in G+ Local’s (mis)handling of international phone numbers that Barry pointed out in his blog today. This problem has been on-going for a number of months and Google is aware of the issue. However I found the irony of these two posts showing together in my G+ stream too …
Nokia HERE Maps Sucks (Significantly) More Than Apple Maps
Nokia, with the help of Navteq, is a seasoned mapping company. Arguably they are in the top tier of digital mapping. Their new product, Nokia HERE Maps for the iPhone, should show Apple what good mapping is all about. It doesn’t. In fact basic interface issues prevent the product from being a serious contender in …
Google+ Local Finally Supports Businesses Open 24 Hours
Updated 5:00 pm Eagle eyed Matt Gregory alerted me to the fact that the Google for Business Dashboard (and apparently the G+ Page for local as well) that a business can now indicate that they are open for 24 hours and it will display correctly on the G+ Local page. This is a feature that …
Ed Parsons: 1 in 3 Searches at Google are Local
Updated: 9:26 am 11/14/2012 Ed Parsons, the Geospatial Technologist of Google, has indicated in a recent talk at Google PinPoint London 2012 that “about 1 in 3 of queries that people just type into a standard Google search bar are about places, they are about finding out information about locations. …this isn’t Google Maps just people normally looking …
Google Adds Mirror Dice to G+ Local Pages
Google has added a new feature (props to Matt Gregory for pointing this out) to the Google+ Local pages that allows a user to add custom fields to any given business listing. You can add things like the name of the person you deal with at the business, their birthday and unique contact information. The …
Google Local Search Results Where None Have Gone Before
At a recent Local University, Googler Joel Headley indicated that Google desired to increasingly show local results whenever pinned results were appropriate and Google was able to show them. One area where this has become apparent is in Real Estate which are once again showing a broad range of pinned blended and pack results. In …
“We do not support this location” Update
Earlier this summer, Google removed a large number of residentially located service area businesses (SAB) from the index for not hiding their address. While Google was trying to clean up the index, a number of these SABs were removed in error. It turned out that Google was unable to restore many of those erroneously removed …
Google Local Weekend Update
Here is Google’s recent update for G+ Local and several other updates from around the web: Here are Google’s minute markers with my comments in italics: 0:01 Introduction 0:16 Listings take a week to go live, a few weeks for link from Google Places dashboard to work It might take longer than a week depending on their …
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