News from the Leading Edge of Local Search
Many businesses are seasonal and a good number of those rely on the winter holiday season for a significant chunk of their sales and profits for the year. Even mundane and unexciting things are likely to be on someone's wish list and people are not only shopping for gifts, but…
Mary BowlingSeptember 12, 2013
When Google moved the business Place pages to Google Plus last year, they started to slowly transition their small business dashboards to the new environment as well. Hopefully, soon there will be one consolidated dashboard where a business will be able to give Google their basic business information, add photos,…
Mike BlumenthalAugust 26, 2013
We received this question via Twitter this week from @AlexMorask: Would you happen to know recommended length for business description in Google Places and Google+? And here's a reply that's a little longer than what Twitter allows per tweet: In the old Google Places dashboard the limit was a measly…
Mike BlumenthalAugust 9, 2013
Since the dawn of Local Search, getting meaningful support for problems with local business listings on Google has been hit or miss. For a long time, the attitude seemed to be that a free product didn’t warrant any support, but the problems that so many SMBs experienced with their listings…
Mary BowlingJuly 16, 2013
We just finished up Local U Advanced in Seattle. These advanced events are incredible in a number of ways because we get to not only present the most current developments in local but interact and learn from the sophisticated individuals from across the world that attend. We were fortunate to…
Mike BlumenthalJuly 11, 2013
How has Google Carousel impacted your local search traffic? Much like Aaron Weiche's blurry Bigfoot analogy (ask him about it next time you see him), Google Carousel results are a tad blurry. At first glance, the change appears to result in a drop in Google local traffic. Granted, these are…
Carrie HillJuly 10, 2013