New Places for Business Bulk Upload Tool Yesterday at I/O, Google announced many new features for Local and Maps. Some of the features aren’t available yet, but we’re already seeing the new Google+ and Places for Business dashboards. If you’re setting up a new Places for Business account, you may be wonder where to find [...]
bulk upload tool, Google Local, Places for BusinessHow to Recover Missing Google Places Listings This morning Google started rolling out a global update to Google Places. The entire service has finally merged with Google+ Local. If you try to go to the normal Places login, you’ll be automatically redirected to a gateway to Google+. For most people this isn’t a problem, but [...]
20-Year Resident Offers Epic Local Insight…Bon Appetit! Hello fellow Pubcon attendees! As you may already know, Pubcon 2013 is taking place in New Orleans, Louisiana — a city known for jazz, good times and most notably for its food. While you take in everything Pubcon has to offer, be sure to take in a bit [...]
Awesome New Google Business Panoramas Extend Street View Technology We recently noticed business panoramas appearing on Google Places/Maps pages for a number of businesses in Austin, TX. These business panoramas operate just like Google Street View, and in fact, in some cases you can follow the street view right through the doors of a business [...]
Google Local, Local SEOGoogle removed it’s popular “dead girl” image from the Google Maps…this article examines the takedown.
Google, google maps, google placesDid Google really show a picture of a dead girl on a UK street through its popular maps service? We have the screenshot and some interesting background.
google mapsGoogle Local Maps Stickers Come to the US Google’s December 2009 announcement that it would be issuing Google Maps “Favorite Place” location markers has now come true. Google has begun shipping the stickers to US-based business. We were fortunate enough to see one of the first stickers shipped in the US (the program was tested [...]
Google Local, google mapsThis article concerns the recent move Google made to return seven results in its local map section instead of 10 results. This change was undertaken in early October of 2009.
google maps, local search, Local SEO, SEOHow Does Google Local Order Its Results? February 2010 Update: We originally published this post in July of 2008. Since then, ranking in Google Local is more elusive, and a more complex algorithm is applied to local rankings. So, we’ve updated this post as noted. Want to improve your search ranking in Google Maps? We [...]
Google Local, google maps, SEOGoogle local is bad news for the yellow pages. Google local enables business owners to rank highly, and with a special entry, in local searches for their products and services. The benefits of Google Local entries are many-fold: Google local entries are blended with regular results for most searches. Google local entries are always presented [...]
