Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Category Archive For "Google+ Local"
ebay On the Wrong (and self serving side) of the Sales Tax Issue
I received this email from ebay this morning. I think that ebay is on the wrong side of this issue. I was in retail for many years and struggled with sales tax issues at every turn. “Struggle” is putting it mildly as at one point the NY State government came after me with guns a …
Local Weekend Update
What Else is New Dept: There is a new bug with the Google Report A Problem for SABs: If a user selects the report a problem link via Maps or G+ Local they get a “This page won’t load…We’ve tried everything” message. At least its cute. Although that sad face icon is eerily reminiscent of my first …
Google Maps Quality Calls: Improving But Still Confusing
Adrew Forster of Adster Creative recently received and recorded a call from the Google Maps listing quality team. The calls are improving in quality over previous calls that we have heard. For example the caller clearly introduced herself. A definite improvement. But the call was still confusing. The intent of the call was not clear …
Google Category Tool Updated To Include new Places for Business Dashboard Categories
We have upgraded the Google Places for Business Category tool and added our categories from the recently released, new Google Places for Business Dashboard. The new list is designated as Google English (US) (PfB) to distinguish it from the list for the old and still predominant dashboard. Note that the new categories themselves DO NOT have …
Google Maps 1.1 for iPhone Not Well Received
Early last month, Google released a 1.1 upgrade to their iPhone mapping product that was faster, integrated Google contacts and included more countries. Apparently though the upgrade has not gone over well with users as the bad reviews seem to be flowing into the App store at a significant clip. Since its release 5 weeks …
Authorship Brownouts Due to “FaceRank”?
Several months ago my author photo stopped showing on my articles in the Google search results. I double checked all of my settings several times and they appeared correct. I didn’t really have time to fool with it until the end of last month when I reached out to Matt McGee, AJ Kohn and Aaron …
Google Announces Availability of a Google+ Widget for New Dashboard
Google has just updated their dashboard post in the forum detailing the new Places for Business Dashboard with the following one button upgrade of your listing to the fully social G+ page. Update: Alex Cordes of LocalSEOupdate.com uncovered an interesting tidbit. If you have a non verified local G+ Page at the same email as …
SABS with Social Local G+ Page – Hide Your Address Now
The process of merging a social G+ Page with a non social G+ Page (AKA a G+ local listing, a Place Page, a non merged G+ page for local) was never intended for use by service area businesses (SABs in Googletalk) that were supposed to hide their address. That didn’t stop them and many of …
Google Notes That Recent Review Take Downs Might Be Reversed
Jade noted in the forums that: Just letting you know that we’ve found a technical issue last week with reviews where some were incorrectly taken down. We’re working on fixing the issue, so sit tight! This was in response to the spate of reports of reviews being taken down last week in what appeared like …
New Google For Business Dashboard Now Available For All New Users Nationwide
Google has just notified me that the new Google For Business Dashboard is now available to ALL NEW dashboard users in the United States. Although I am not yet seeing it on the accounts that I manage. I missed the new dashboard users part and mistakenly thought it was all users. Mia Culpa… its late here. …
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