Is anyone else noticing a Google Places hiccup with more reviews. I can’t seem to get any Google Places listing to go past page two of reviews and even on Page 2 of reviews it is ONLY listing 3 of the reviews. Not a huge problem, but a minor bug in Google Places. I’ve noticed [...]
Where Did All The Google Places Meta Descriptions Go…?
Not sure yet if this is a bug or a Google Places update….? It’s 12:42 EST time on Feb 14, 2012 {…Oh, hey! Happy Valentines Day! } and I am not seeing any meta descriptions in the SERPs for any listings that are associated with Google Places on both ‘blended’ and ‘pure’ search results. Also, [...]
Video Tips on How to Manage Poor Reviews on Google Places
One my clients received a ‘poor’ review and this is a great video case study on how to manage poor reviews. Let me know your thoughts on how to handle poor reviews online? My top poor review management tips are: take responsibility try to make it right get more good reviews And to that damn [...]
Business Photo Program for Google Places
The Business Photo Program for Google Places was launched in April of 2010, but seems to still be going and growing. It allows potential customers to take a 360-degree virtual tour of your business like the way you can in Google Street View. It’s so cool! The most important thing about this program is it [...]
Why It’s Essential to Login into Your Google Places Every Month and to Click ‘Edit’ Then ‘Submit’
This really scared me reading this today on the Google Places forum. “Here’s the deal: Google Places allows multiple people to own a listing. So you may have claimed your account, but someone else may have claimed it before you and is still considered an “owner” of the listing. The last person to have updated [...]
Google Maps + Google Plus = Game
Couple interesting Google Maps things I found this week. By now you must have heard that there is a Google Maps based game coming to Google+ next month. It’s an Android based game. There is not doubt in my mind games are BIG, even though I personally do not find myself playing them. Games are [...]
Google Places Redesign – From Red to Grey Pins We Go!
I was notified of this official Google Places change of “red pin to grey pin” during GetListed’s Local U yesterday while Mike Blumental was presenting. What was even stranger was he was tweeting as he was speaking…? I think maybe his son was sending out tweets while he was speaking. Mike’s Tweet: #Localu Gotta love [...]
Merging Google Places Listings Just Got Easier
Google Places Announced Some Better Support Recently. Google Places published on their blog: That’s why we have the “Report a problem” tool on Google Maps, and also enable users to click on the “Edit this place” link at the top of the Place page to provide updates to a business listing.And while some business owners [...]
Google Places Help
Well it’s not a Google Places help phone number, but I guess it’s the next best thing. Today on the Google Small Business Blog they announced support for Google Places. It’s a small success for SMB’ers who desperately need assistance, due to all the problems with Google Places. All I can say is, “thank-goodness!” I [...]
7-pack vs Blended Local Results – What Triggers It?
My good friend Darren Shaw over at Whitespark (who has the best citation finder ever!), wrote a very interesting post yesterday. The whole post is about what triggers the the different search results for local. I highly recommend you go and read the post. I added my thoughts in Darren’s comment section, but I wanted [...]
