Mike Blumenthal

Last Thursday at the Advanced Local U, Dan Pritchett, the engineer heading up the Places for Business Dashboard effort and Joel Headley, joined us for the day long discussions. During the day, the arbitrary limits to the maximum number of listings (25) in the dashboard were discussed and bemoaned by the folks at the seminar. …

For as long as Google has displayed local results they have done so with a modified Yellow Page listing approach albeit one that ranked by prominence rather than distance or alphabetically. With the rollout of the new Google Maps preview, the loss of the Places search link & Places search from the main page of …

Last week Bill Slawski wrote about Google’s categorization of web pages for use in local search. The patent he writes about is one in a long line of related works that discuss this sort of web page categorization. That or something very similar to it appears to be occurring that allows Google to include multiple …

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 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. …

The way that Google has been encouraging SMBs to move to a new location has long been a kludge. Last night Google announced a somewhat more intuitive procedure although it still has a touch of kludge about it. From the forum post by Jade: Verified business owner of a page, and is your business moving …