Social search is not going away. It is important for small businesses to get involved with the major social media sites especially now that social search is a part of the search results pages for people who belong to your social circles. I believe small businesses should have several social profiles. One that is personal [...]
Google LBC’s New “Post to Your Place Page” Feature
This is really cool. Not sure when Google LBC released this new feature, I haven’t heard anyone speak about it yet. I was in tweaking a couple of things with a fairly new client’s account and I noticed a new feature called “Post to Your Place Page”. It looks like this: And then when it goes live [...]
How To Edit & Delete Google Maps Coupons
I noticed there was quite a few people who were having trouble understanding how to edit and/or delete their Google Maps Coupons on the G-Maps Forum. It looks like some of merchants where dealing with a bug, but some people just didn’t know how to navigate around on the Local Business Center. This video tutorial [...]
Google Maps Bulk Upload
To Upload, Or Not To Upload, That Is The Question: This has become a current question I have had to ask and consider with one of my more recent clients. This client has several hundred locations via a franchise and they want to monitor & optimize their Google Maps listings. The question we had been [...]
Local Search Marketing for 2010
Personalized Search So we are quickly approaching 2010 and its becoming more apparent what is on Google’s agenda. It looks like they are moving forward to add a couple new elements to Universal Search. It looks like ‘personalize search’ and ‘real time search’ are two major elements of universal search that is not going away. [...]
Google Maps Local Listing Advertising
Google is in beta testing on their Local Listing Ads, the question I have is why do you think its taken them so long to start to monetize these local listings? Do you think there was no need in the past because they didn’t display the 7-Pack in the organic search engine pages. Now [...]
Google Maps: Citations, Reviews, & User Content
Claiming and filling out your Google Maps Listing is the easy part, but it’s usually not enough when trying to rank within the ultra-competitive Google Maps 7-Box. The last place you want your local business to be listed in is the “More results near…such, such city” which might as well say “More results near invisible [...]
