Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Category Archive For "Google+ Local"
Google Bulk Upload: Verified Listings Or Just Another Data Feed?
Does a Google Bulk upload create a verified listing or is it in reality just another data feed? Unfortunately it is the latter. Danny Sullivan and Greg Sterling have been covering the recent multi listing hijacking of hotel pages at Google. The hijackers essentially were able to take control of numerous hotel listings and insert …
Google and Apple Consolidate Positions in Driving Directions During 2013
The driving directions market, while more fragmented than search or social, is continuing to see consolidation. Google maintained their leading share and Apple gained share while the GPS and other web providers are seeing steady and large declines in usage. Over the past year, I have continued to survey consumers as to their preferred choice …
Google Local Carousels MIA – Are they gone for good?
Are Local Carousels on their way out? They are gone today in my browsers. (Note others are not seeing any reduction in carousels). Which raises another question: Is this part of a larger plan to clean up the look of search results page in general and local search in particular? Several weeks ago rumors started …
Mining for Google Hummingbird Guano in So Cal
Google’s Hummingbird guano, like real guano, is fertile ground. Unfortunately, in the case of Google’s guano, it is fertile ground for spammers and spam and nothing as productive as farm crops. Southern California has always been a hot bed of Google local spam particularly in the legal industry. Yesterday I was exploring search results for …
How Do I Merge Two Google+ Page Pages? A Very Common Question
Update July 2014: If you are looking to convert a Brand page to a Local page Google has recently released that functionality. Read about it here: Google Now Allows Brand Pages to Become Google+ Local Pages Because of the slow and never ending transition of Places to Plus and because of less than stellar communications …
Google Search Quality Issues Dogging Local Results
The front page of Google is where the action is. It’s often where a business has the first opportunity to present their brand, it’s where calls from potential customers start and discovery of a new businesses first takes place. This is particularly true in local search results where your presence and the quality of the …
The Google Places Dashboard And Listing Ownership
The old Google Places for Business Dashboard allowed a listing to be verified into multiple accounts. The new Places for Business Dashboard only allows one verification per listing. This is a huge difference process. It is also an impediment to many listings being moved over to the new dashboard. Given the ambiguity of ownership in …
Google MapMaker Update Summary: One Database to Rule Them All
Now that MapMaker is back online, I wanted to understand the recent changes to MapMaker in the bigger context, how the changes related to the Places for Business Dashboard, the G+ Pages for Local and when it still makes sense to use MapMaker. I asked Dan Austin to write up his understanding of the changes from …
Google Intros the Mother of All SMB Review Monitoring Systems
Google has announced on the Google and Your Business blog today that they have rolled out what appears to be the mother of all review monitoring systems today. The system, a new module for the updated Places for Business Dashboard, not only shows Google based reviews to dashboard owners and managers, it shows every review …
Google, Google Plus, Dog Food & Politics
A reader pointed out to me that Google themselves do not seem to think that local Google + Pages for Business are all that important as they have not upgraded their page to social. They in fact have not even claimed the page as of yet. Certainly no consumption of their own dog food there. …
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