Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Category Archive For "Google Places (Maps & Local)"
Google for business Forum Update: Photos Uploaded in Dashboard May Take 1 Month To Appear
Jade, in her first ever solo video, makes it short and sweet. The new that you need to be aware of is that photos that you upload and were uploaded via the dashboard will experience interminable delays. Summary if you don’t want to watch: 1-All links to your old Places listing links will now redirect …
Google: We Can Show Stars if We Want to!
Last week in “It Really Is a Google World and We Are All Just Living in It“, David Mihm observed that the bulk of content above the fold was Google’s. Last week, with the upgrade to G+ local, Google removed the engaging 5-star graphic from regular business listings and replaced them with the bland and …
David Mihm’s Local Search Ranking Factors Volume 5 is Out
For those of you that either live under a rock or have a very limited reading repatoire David Mihm’s annual Local Search Ranking Factors Volume 5 is out. In it you will see the compiled opinions of a large number of local search practioners, new and old. If you read only one blog post this month, …
Google+ Local Pages Category Confusion
With the rollout of the new G+ local pages, a number of readers reported seeing erroneous categories associated with their listing in G+ local. Jim Froling of 949local.com sent along the examples below that show the types of information that is showing up. Joel Headley noted at the Getlisted Local Advanced seminar in Seattle last …
An Updated Step By Step Guide for the SMB to the Google + Local Page Transition
Updated 6/8 7:00 pm. Updated 6/9 12:25 pm. Updated 6/11 3:00 am In the change over from Places to Google+Local (and then to Google+ Business pages), Google is upgrading a very complex system. Over the next few weeks and months changes will continue to roll out. During this process issues are going to occur. It …
Google Places Experiencing Lost Listings
In Google local when there is big change you can always expect some extra “excitement”. Lost a legitimate listing or getting the “We do not support this location” inappropriately? As Jason has notes below in his recent email below, several users HAVE contacted me about the issue and Google’s response: We are working hard to …
Google+ Local – What Wasn’t in the Announcement Was More Important Than What Was
Last week’s announcement of Google+ Local was underwhelming. The review upgrade was impressive but the rest was tepid at best. Essentially the URL for your Place page has changed and the page now shows in the index although the “upgrade” seems to have broken more than it fixed. The announcement last week of Google+ Local was more …
Bug in Google+Local Prevents Links on Page From Resolving Correctly
Michael Borgeit and Linda Buquet have both alerted me to a new bug on the new Google+Local pages that frequently prevents any link on the G+Local page to external websites (listing website, review websites etc) from correctly resolving and when clicked serves up the “Google 400. That’s an error.” page instead. The bug is not …
Google and Your Business forum wrapup – June 1, 2012
Best advice in the video: Take a deep breath and don’t worry. Not that much has changed. Best Technical tip: How to Flag an inappropriate review.
7-Pack Upgraded – Stars Are No More, Authorship is King
Google continues to march down the integration road of bringing the new Google+Local pages into the flow of their products. Today the 7-Pack was updated to include the new links and the new review rating system. As you can see from the image if there are more than 10 reviews the new Zagat rating replaces …
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