Last Updated on October 2, 2017
Last week in local 9/25/2017
Join Local U for the latest public episode of Last Week in Local, a weekly conversation about the articles that attracted our attention during the past week ending September 25th, 2017. This week features Joel Headley & Mary Bowling.
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Google Top Contributors Q&A About Google My Business and Local Search
Google adding export functionality to index coverage report.
Well, look what we have here! Google added EXPORT functionality to the new Index Coverage report in GSC. Awesome addition! @johmu @methode pic.twitter.com/A755gGcArh
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) September 22, 2017
iOS Google App has content recommendations, which can move users away from one site and on to another.
Google app for iOS adds ‘People also view’ feature that recommends related articles
Siri web search switches back to Google, but, powered by Search API, they aren’t personalized, tracked, or with some features.
Apple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search results on iOS and Spotlight on Mac
Rick Osterloh, hired last year at Google, to unify hardware efforts brings in house phone hardware expertise from those that worked on Pixel at HTC.
Google signs agreement with HTC, continuing our big bet on hardware
Microsoft launching health care division, focused on machine learning and perhaps gathering data via wearables.
Microsoft launches new healthcare division based on artificial intelligence software
Indian transit agency begins to add GPS to buses so that Google Maps gets more useful
Indian buses are never on time, so Google is trying to track them in real time
Investments in HERE mapping: are they paying off?
Exclusive: German carmakers’ HERE spent 640 million euros on R&D in 2016
Kohl’s gets further in bed with Amazon
Kohl’s to accept Amazon returns in 82 stores – Reuters
Mary’s Links:
Phil Rosek’s advice on using review “encouragement” software.He points out some of the pitfalls you may encounter and encourages you to really learn to understand the process before relying on software to do everything for you.
Why Your Review-Encouragement Software Is a Meat Grinder | LocalVisibilitySystem.com
“Beacons help mobile devices determine a user’s location more accurately. When a user’s smartphone has a better understanding of their location, you can unlock a wide range of new features, and set up your business to use location-related features across Google:
- Help your business show up on personal maps or saved places, where users have opted in to Location History.
- Gather photos, reviews, and other user-generated content for your business from people who’ve actually visited.
- Provide features like Popular times and typical visit duration to help customers plan their visit to your business.
- Help provide Location Insights about how customers engage with your store. Visit your Google My Business Insights Page to learn more.
- Access more features as they become available.”
About Project Beacon by Google – AdWords Help
Insights into Local Advertising – Automotive Vertical – BIAKelsey
The TriModal Local Ranking Algo in One Screenshot – Local SEO Guide
#1 Tip from Each of 50 SEOs on Attorney Marketing
Law Firm SEO Strategies: 50+ SEO Specialists Share Their Best Tips – Rankings.io
Synup Raises $6 Million In Series A; Aims to Achieve 10x Growth in the Next 3 Years
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Hey Mike 🙂
Great read.
I’ve been looking around your website and didn’t find an interesting topic which gets more ideal the further we go into the future – Voice search for local shop / webshop. This i topic is actually something i and a few others from my company would like to hear someone else than use talk about.
I know the website searchengineland.com just recently put up a post that around 60% allready bought something with their voice with smart radio. Like what is the potential of “v-commerce” and is it a real thing? or are people still mute and do the search on their smartphones by hand instead? Allso from a SEO perspective will this have any impact on the search results? will google be able to differienciate organic typing search and organic voice search?
I hope you find this topic as interesting as i and my team do.
Otherwise Good read, and looking forward to read more.
@Mikael,
Thanks for taking the time to comment.
I agree it would be great to have more discussion on voice. At this point, there’s not a great way to differentiate in the SERPs between voice and other long-form queries.
As we get more data we’ll be sure to get it out to our community.
In the meantime, for some opinion — no facts, mind you — here’s a recent interview I did with the editors of Velocitize.
Will Scott on Voice Search
Hey Will 🙂
Thanks for reply, ill be checking it out.