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Category Archive For "Google+ Local"
LocalU Odds and Ends
Lot’s has been happening at LocalU. We have an advanced LocalU coming up Monday in NYC that has just 5 seats left. If you do sign up be sure to use the discount code WS-LUA10 for 10% off. If you are already signed up be sure to reach out to me and introduce yourself. We …
New Countries Added to Places for Business Category Tool – Volunteers Needed
We have just upgraded the Google Places Category tool with categories for the new dashboard from: UK – United Kingdom contributed by Andrew Loy, Occupancy Marketing NL – Netherlands contributed by Eduard de Boer FR – France contributed by Ken Fagan Aus – Austria contributed by Petra Kraft IT – Italy contributed by Andrea Scarpetta CA – Canada contributed by Darren Shaw Norway …
Google Becoming Slightly More Transparent About Nuking Reviews
Update 9/28: I had myself taken off as a manager of Barbara’s page and my review instantly lost the notice and showed back up on the listing. Historically at Google Local, if a review triggered the spam filter, the reviewer would still see the review associated with the business if they were logged in and …
Upgraded Google Places for Business Dashboard Listings Now Allow Managers to be Added
Once a listing in the Places Dashboard has been upgraded to G+ Page social functionality, Google inextricably intertwines the listing with the social Page with both (mostly) positive and (some) negative effects. For example deleting the G+ Page will now delete the Dashboard listing and changing owners of the Page will transfer ownership of the …
What is the Value of Embedding a G+ Post on Your Blog? Is there a Local Search Use Case?
Google+ has recently implemented the ability for a Google + post to be embedded on a page with comments on a different domain. It is simmple to implement requiring a small snippet of javascript (<script type=”text/javascript” src=”https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js”></script>) be embedded in your header and then simply copy the embed code from the post at + and embed …
Updated Web Equity Infographic
When a new social network takes off I inevitably read about how one should abandon (your pick) blogging/website/other social platforms and solely write via the incredible new platform (again you pick) G+, Tumblr, Medium. I also recently received this comment from am attendee at the last LocalU Advanced after having a correspondence about the importance of …
Canadian Categories from the New Dashboard Now Added to Google Category Tool
With the help of Darren Shaw of Whitespark, we have recently added the list of Canadian categories from the new Google Places for Business Dashboard to our searchable Google Places Category Tool. The new Places for Business Dashboard is country specific and the categories that one sees are IP & country specific. Thus I need …
New Google Places For Business Listings Can Now Be Transferred to a New Owner via G+ Page Management
Update: 12:30: I have changed the title of the article from saying “Account” to “Listings” as what is being transferred is the G+ Page ownership NOT the account. I learned the hard way this past week that a business listing in the new Google Places for Business Dashboard that has been upgraded to social functionality, …
How to Delete Your Google Places for Business Dashboard Listing in One Easy Step (Or Brainfarts + Bad UI = Bad Outcomes)
Since Google has allowed business listings created via the (old) Places Dashboard to merge with and take on attributes of a G+ Page for local, it has been standard procedure in certain problem cases to delete the G+ Page and return the listing to a non-social listing. I had done so on numerous occasions with …
Google+ Pages for Local – Which One Is It?
Google is slowly moving towards a G+ local world where there will be two types of G+ Pages for local; claimed and unclaimed. There will be subtle differences between the claimed pages depending on owner configuration (social or no, video or no, owned by a person or a company) but all G+ Pages for local …
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