Understanding Google My Business & Local Search
Category Archive For "Local Search"
TripAdvisor Reviews Now Showing in Places Again
Do you remember the old SNL skit “Point/Counterpoint” (named after the 60 Minutes Segment) which featured Dan Akroyd making scurrilous attacks on Jane Curtain? Not sure who is whom in this current remake starring Google and Tripadvisor but it sure is taking on the same tenor. 🙂 The recent “its a technical issue, no its …
Guest post: Top 10 local UK business directories compared & rated
This is a guest post by Myles Anderson of Brightlocal.com. Brighlocal is a London-based local SEO company that is building local SEO tools for marketers, web-designers and local businesses. He has also written an excellent companion piece: Top UK online business directories – comparison of audience figures 2009/2010. In November, I wrote up Brightlocal’s Review facilitation tool, ReviewBiz. …
What is The Real Reason that TripAdvisor Is Limiting Review Content To Places?
It appears that TripAdvisor is in fact currently limiting what and how Google can display TA’s review content on Google Places pages. Yesterday, a statement from them appeared at TNooz.com, a travel industry news blog, that indicated that was the case. I wanted to confirm this with TripAdvisor. I asked their PR department the following …
A Reason Not to Move to Canada?
Since starting blogging I have made a number of very good friends and often times get to meet these folks in person. The other benefit (?) is that I occasionally receive unsolicited gifts in the mail. Google sent me a very cool Nexus Phone and a coffee mug. Once I even got a box of 40 …
ReviewBiz – Making Reviews Friction Free
I am a big fan of an ethical review solicitation process that smooths the path between customers and creating reviews. If reviews are going to reflect the overall impression of your business accurately, a broad sampling of your customers needs to participate and it needs to be easy. I think that the opportunity to easily …
Google Places Search to IYPs – What is the Message? Go Microformats, Young Man!
There has been a lot of discussion* (David Mihm, Greg Sterling, Chris Silver Smith, Andrew Shotland) in the local search community about the meaning and impact of the new Places Search organo-local blending of results on IYPs, directories and Review sites. All interesting and all of value. Clearly there will be winners and loosers, clearly …
Time to Reexamine hCard to Solve the Call Tracking Issue in Local
The Problem: Call tracking is a valuable tool for business. With the advent of VOIP it has become very low cost and its benefits are available to even the smallest business. The problem is that in Local it can cause much more harm than benefit in the current ecosystem. The use of call tracking numbers …
Yelp.com & Unique Vistors: Would the Real Number Please Stand Up
While there may be some dispute about the origins of the saying: “there are three kinds of lies, lies, damned lies and statistics” there is little disagreement about its general truthfulness. It seems particularly appropriate in regard to Yelp’s unique visitors. Yesterday Yelp.com announced at SMX East that they had 38 million uniques on the …
Locksmith Mad as Hell -Sues AZ Attorney General to Enforce Law
The ALOA (Associated Locksmiths of America, the locksmith trade group) has recently posted the legal filing from a lawsuit initiated by a locksmith in Arizona. The complaint for violations of Arizona’s laws preventing misrepresentation of “the geographical origins or location of the person’s business” attempts to 1)Get an injunction against the offending locksmtih (Atlas Locksmith Soltuons …
Old News But Interesting News: Merchant Circle Pays $900,00 To Settle Alleged Unlawful Marketing Practices
I spend a lot of time reading about and writing about the Local Search industry so I am not sure how this one slipped by. I was poking around the BBB of San Jose and came across a notice of government action indicating that Merchant Circle had settled an allegation of unlawful marketing practices from …
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