Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Category Archive For "Google Places (Maps & Local)"
Google Maps: Sponsored Icons – Pay Your Way to the Base Level & Add a Logo
In August last year, Google Maps added icons and labels of prominent businesses and places of interest directly onto Google Maps in the form of a small icon. In the Google Maps discussion groups there has been a number of (angry) questions as to exactly how a business could get their icon embedded in the …
Google Maps: What Happens When You Lose a Town?
Wikipedia seems to know, Mapquest knows, Bing knows, even Google Organic seems to know something that is a secret to Google Maps & Google Universal results – the whereabouts of Rogers, MN. Well its not exactly true that Google Maps doesn’t know where Rogers is. It is apparently more complex than that. But real life …
Bing Maps now Allows Twitter Stream Maps to be Embedded
From the Bing Blog: We’ve just released an update to the Twitter Maps application in the Bing Maps Application Gallery. NOW, you can embed our Twitter Maps functionality into your own web site. This means you can be cool by having a Bing Map on your web site, blog, favorite social networking site with the Tweets …
Google Maps…Now where will you go for that surgery?
Sometimes Google Universal Map results return unexpected answers. This search for “surgery wellsboro” is a recent example. I am not sure which is more worrisome, answer one or answer two. As Charles & Justin pointed out, the reviews are quite strange for the McDonald’s. I’ll have a Big Mac with my operation, please:
Review Case Study: With More Than One Employee Process Becomes Key
Don Campbell is president of Expand2Web which provides websites and Local SEO for small business owners. North Valley Optometry is owned by Dr. Tarryn Ngo, the wife of Don Campbell’s business partner Randy Hew. It has provided Expand2Web with a great case study on the impact of online reviews. Randy has been responsible for optimizing their …
Google Directions Widget Goes Wacky
David Rubin of Quintessential Interiors pointed out a strange bug in the Google Directions widget where it will only calculate distances in kilometers even on US based sites and domains. He noted: I have come across another Google problem that seems to be right up your alley. While testing the Google Directions Gadget that I installed …
Garnering Reviews – A Mom & (no) Pop Shop finally Hops on Reviews
Barbara Oliver and Co. Jewelry, an owner operated jewelry store with one part time employee in Buffalo, NY was referred to me by my sister about a year ago for help with marketing of her “new” website. Like many small businesses she has trouble integrating new procedures whether from inertia, fear or lack of time. …
Asking for Reviews – UMoveFree Finds the Groove
Nick Barber is President and CEO of UMoveFree, the largest apartment locating service in Texas. UMoveFree is a free service that helps renters in Texas find a new apartment each month. Nick called with some questions about Google Maps and we had a great conversation about his company’s review strategy. Nick agreed to share his …
Principles for a Review Plan: Considerations in encouraging customer reviews
Asking for feedback & testimonials from customers has been a long term practice in the business world. The practice has morphed to some degree by new exposure that on-line review platforms have provided to this information. The rewards are much greater and the affect of running afoul of the community standards can be severe. Yelp …
Are the SEO Oneboxes Returning to the Google SERPS? Nah…..except in Duluth
Marty of Aimclear sent this screen shot of what, at first glance, appeared to be a spammy onebox for the Google search SEO Duluth and perhaps foreshadowed the return of SEO to the 7 Pack after their banishment: Neither is the case. Apparently there is a Physicians Assistant in Duluth by the name of Kengo …
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