Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Category Archive For "Google Places (Maps & Local)"
Semmy’s: Honoring Search Articles from 2009
The Matt McGee‘s annual Semmy Awards have been announced and 3 of my articles published this year have been nominated. My thanks go out to Matt (and his many minions) for all of his effort in recognizing the many great articles from throughout the year. It is a monumental task to track, collate and order …
Loci2009: Gib Olander’s Important Trends and Directions in Local
So not all of these posts were explicitly about local but I think they all discuss leading trends and toward solving problems that local is dealing with or will be dealing with in the near future. Here are eight posts from 2009 that sum up the year and point toward where we are going in …
Loci2009: Matt McGee’s Most Important Developments in Local Search for 2009
It seems to me that the two most important developments in local search during 2009 both came from Google. I suppose that’s not much of a surprise in the current local environment, is it? Here’s my top two: Google Shows Local/Map Results on Generic Queries — you wrote about this on your blog, I wrote …
Webmaster.FM Interview
Yesterday, Bill Slawski and I were interviewed (minutes 15-45) by Jim Hedger about the recent Google Local Business Center snafu: Google Local Business Center Results Emailed to Random Business Leaders
Loci 2009: Daniel Tunkelang’s Interesting Local Posts of 2009
Daniel Tunkelang is one of those individuals that you probably know little about but who will be influencing our lives a great deal going forward. Since November 2009 he has been the a Tech Lead/Manager on the local search team at Google and has a long history of heavy hitting in the search environment. His …
Google LBC: We’re Sorry, human error
Update 01/07/10: Elaine Filadelfo from Google’s Global Communications & Public Affairs office, has just forwarded me the following communication: Hi Mike, I know you’ve been covering the newsletter mix-up. Wanted to make sure you’ve got the latest statement/explanation: As you know, we send a monthly newsletter to our Local Business Center users, featuring product news …
Google Maps LBC Sending Out Monthly Stats to Wrong Businesses?
At about 1 am this morning, Danielle Kraft of Studio Kraft in NJ sent along this comment: Hi Mike, Oddly, this evening I received an email that was detailed for a “Google Local Business Center Updates for Maaco Collision Repair & Auto Painting.” I’ve received this type of email before for a business we have …
Google LBC Requiring Reverification of Some Listings
For historical reasons, I have a number of very small clients that I have done some local work for in my Local Business Center account. While not the best arrangement for many situations, it works well for these small clients that are barely computer literate. It has the added benefit of highlighting certain Google behaviors …
Loci 2009: David Mihm’s Most Important Articles in Local Last Year
David Mihm, well known for his writing on his blog & at SearchEngineLand and for his work on Getlisted.org, an smb local listing management tool, offers up the articles that he found most important over the past twelve months… ***** There were a ton of great articles in the Local Search industry this year & …
Avatar impersonators & Ann Smarty
I run a do follow blog for a reason. It seems like the right thing to do to recognize those regular contributors that have made the blog a success. I require 5 or more posts before the no follow tag is removed and I screen every comment. But it creates a lot of work. Every …
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