Recently a friend of mine, Jackson Lo introduce me to a very useful tool I Search From which allows you to search Google from different locations or devices. This tool is perfect for SEO’ers who need to see how search results show up in different cities, countries, & different devices like the iphone, ipad, etc. In the [...]
What is Still Key in NEW Google Plus Local Business Pages?
WOW! This past week has seen a frenzy of questions and speculations about the why’s, what’s and everything in between about Google’s big changes in the online local small business arena. Dumping their Google Places business listings pages in favour of the NEW Google+ Local business pages is too huge a change for most business [...]
Google’s Over-Optimization Penalty – Is It Affecting Your Small Business’s Website Rankings?
Google’s long anticipated over-optimization penalty is now live. So Google released another update on April 24th, 2012 being called by SEO’ers as Google’s “Over-Optimization Penalty”. Except Google is calling it an algorithmic update that’s targeting web spam. Google Claims: “Panda change affected about 12% of queries to a significant degree; this algorithm affects about 3.1% [...]
How Does Google Rankings Work?
How Does Google Search Rank Your Small Business Website? We get this question all the time about how Google Search ranks websites. Above is a great introduction video given by (Google’s Head of Web Spam) Matt Cutts. If you ever wondered how does Google crawl the web and then determine which web pages get ranked [...]
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 Showing More Personal Search Results Now With “Search Plus”
Personalized search is obviously important to Google. We are seeing more and more personalized results in Google search results and looks like Google wants to push the envelope even further with Search Plus. Not sure if this is a further step to compete with Facebook or not…? Danny Sullivan said in Search Engine Land: Perhaps [...]
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 [...]
Google Adword’s Ad With An Opt-In Form in The Actual Ad
Since When Did Adwords Ads Allow You to Capture Emails Right in The AD? I don’t know if anyone else has seen this yet, but I have seen a couple Google Adwords Ads (like in the example image above) where the Adword’s Ad has an email optin form built into the ad. It’s awesome and [...]
