Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Category Archive For "Google Places (Maps & Local)"
Local Links of Interest
 Small Business Marketing Success Story: Avante Gardens – Matt McGee, SearchEngineland This interview with Cathy Rulloda is a great overview of good practices. Cathy is always at the forefront of using the internet for local marketing in the very tough florist arena and she more than holds her own. Free-411 Rolls Out Dial Directions Nationally & Jingle Goes Nationwide …
Google Maps: Earthlink Listings now gone
On May 6th Imnotadoctor.com noted that Earthlink had made quite a mapspam splash. In Google Maps: More Bulk Upload Mapspam or bad data from a Trusted Source. I questioned the source of the many listings, theorizing that it came not from a bulk upload but from a data feed. It now appears to be completely gone. …
Local Seo Tracking Software
A reader asked me serveral months ago if I knew of software to track local search standings. Advanced Web Ranking had just implemented the feature (after a year of hounding) and I told the reader about it with a caution that I had not yet tried it. He just took the time to email his …
What impact Maps and Coupons?
Earl the Pearl, in bringing up a new site and comparing to an older one, has done a great summary and analysis at SeoREfugee of where local traffic is coming from: Over the past 10 months, the largest single traffic generator search phrase has been the industry generic term. In google it has generated about …
Local Links of Interest
A Technology Consortium Plans a Wireless Network – Matt Richtel, NY Times The consortium includes a disparate group of partners: Sprint Nextel, Google, Intel, Comcast, Time Warner and Clearwire…. They expect the network, which will provide the next generation of high-speed Internet access for cellphone users, to be built in as little as two years, …
Google Maps: More Bulk Upload Mapspam or bad data from a Trusted Source
Recent reports of bulk upload Earthlink MapSpam may in fact be “spam” coming to Google from one of its “trusted” primary data suppliers instead rather than being entered via the Local Business Center. Last week and again today Imnotadoctor.com is reporting spammy listings in the Google Maps Local 10-Pack. In this most recent case the …
Google Maps – User edit abuses happening to Payday loan company?
I have little sympathy for even the best companies in the payday loan business. Many of them charge as much as 400% interest (as reported in the WSJ) and manage to illegally get their hands on limited Social Security payments (again according to the WSJ), a practice the government is attempting to limit. Google seems …
Google Maps Lost Record Recovery Tip
Google’s Maps Guide Tom, who first announced the problem (late Feb) with missing records in Maps and the subsequent fix (late April) has noted a work around for any records still not showing up in Map’s as a result of the problem: ========================================== TOPIC: Active listing not appearing? Try this! ========================================= == 1 of 1 == Date: …
Google Maps – The Dog Daze of May
Google has in the past conflated two records but this is the first I have seen a record being confused with its own older version. I sympathized with Nivek’s lament in the Google Maps for Business Group: TOPIC: Hours duplicated, can’t remove the incorrect set ====== = 1 of 1 = Date: Sat, May 3 …
Google Reaching out to Local Search Blogging Community
Jen Chin, aka Maps Guide Jen, in a recent comment to my article Google Maps Fixes missing record bug, has noted: You’ve seen me posting as “Maps Guide Jen†on our Maps Help Group, but I’m hoping to get out in the blogosphere and comment on blogs more often. …. We’re currently talking about a …
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