{"id":1048,"date":"2008-10-06T15:45:23","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T19:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=1048"},"modified":"2009-04-22T10:54:53","modified_gmt":"2009-04-22T14:54:53","slug":"smxeast-presentation-a-patent-review-of-maps-ranking-factors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/06\/smxeast-presentation-a-patent-review-of-maps-ranking-factors\/","title":{"rendered":"SMXEast Presentation: A patent review of Maps Ranking Factors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading Google&#8217;s Location Prominence Patent of late in search of a better understanding of the web related factors that affect Local ranking in Maps. This presentation augments the <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/04\/ranking-factors-in-google-maps-cracking-the-code-smx-local\/\">one made at SMXLocal<\/a> in July. If time allows I will do a series on the underlying patent and its implications. Here is my presentation from SMXEast:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/docs.google.com\/EmbedSlideshow?docid=dfjnmd5k_4295knpsf9' frameborder='0' width='410' height='342'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of background information and notes that accompany this presentation. The patent is a trove of incredible information and very interesting background. I hope to be able to write a more thorough review of the patent but in the mean time, please, please ask away and I respond as best as I am able.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the above and the SMX East presentation there are two other posts worth reading on the factors affecting ranking:<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/16\/10-likely-elements-of-googles-local-search-algorithm\/\">10 Likely Elements of Google&#8217;s Local Search Algorithm<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; David Mihm&#8217;s excellent survey of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmihm.com\/local-search-ranking-factors.shtml\">local search ranking factors<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading Google&#8217;s Location Prominence Patent of late in search of a better understanding of the web related factors that affect Local ranking in Maps. This presentation augments the one made at SMXLocal in July. If time allows I will do a series on the underlying patent and its implications. Here is my &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1050,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/1050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}