{"id":16890,"date":"2014-07-25T03:13:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T07:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=16890"},"modified":"2014-07-25T03:18:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T07:18:24","slug":"google-to-seos-designers-advertising-agents-you-are-back-on-the-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/25\/google-to-seos-designers-advertising-agents-you-are-back-on-the-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Google to SEO\u2019s, Designers & Advertising Agents: You are BACK ON the Map!"},"content":{"rendered":"

On December 31st, 2009 my headline was:
\nGOOGLE TO SEO\u2019S, DESIGNERS & ADVERTISING AGENTS: YOU ARE OFF THE MAP!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Well as of last night<\/a>, after almost 5 years, you (as well as web designers, advertising agencies and marketing firms) are back in the Local results in most markets (thanks to Max Minzer<\/a> for the tip). It appears to be a function of the new Local algo update<\/a> that was announced last night. I doubt that SEO’s are now back in Google’s good graces but regardless it reflects the big change in the new algo.<\/p>\n

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I wanted to show Andrew’s mug before he did.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In November of 2009 here were examples of searches that had lost their local universal results that I noted<\/a> in a blog post at the time (those in bold are now again showing pack results):<\/p>\n

For example none of the following show a Map or Local listing results:
\n–Marketing Firms Boston MA<\/a><\/strong>
\n–Local Search Marketing Portland OR<\/a>
\n–Web Hosting Denver Co<\/a>
\n–Web Design Los Angeles Ca<\/a><\/strong>
\n–Advertising agency NY NY<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On December 31st, 2009 my headline was: GOOGLE TO SEO\u2019S, DESIGNERS & ADVERTISING AGENTS: YOU ARE OFF THE MAP! Well as of last night, after almost 5 years, you (as well as web designers, advertising agencies and marketing firms) are back in the Local results in most markets (thanks to Max Minzer for the tip). …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16890","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=16890"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16899,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16890\/revisions\/16899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}