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• Google’s Blue Interface (aka Jazz) Is Approaching – What is your Hands on Take?

  
  Understanding Google Maps & Local Search — Authority: 431
  According to Barry at Seroundtable, more searchers are now seeing the new 3 column Google Jazz Interface. This interface, which Google hopes to push out sometime this year will have a significant impact on local search if for no other reason than because of it showing a 5 pack instead of the current 7 pack as the ...
  14 hours ago

• Google now offers Pay Per Call indirectly

  
  Dennis Yu: local online marketing, facebook advertising, internet guru — Authority: 118
  If local advertising companies aren’t already quaking in their boots with Google’s recent blitz of new enhancements in local– Place Pages , Favorite Places , Caffeine, ad extensions , sitelinks , Fixed Fee Listings (yes, the beta was over due to poor performance), and…
  22 hours ago

• Coming Soon: Click-to-Call in Ads on Mobile Devices with Google AdWords

  
  Understanding Google Maps & Local Search — Authority: 431
  I just received this email from Google: Coming Soon: Click-to-Call in Ads on Mobile Devices with Google AdWords Dear AdWords Advertiser, We’re pleased to announce that beginning in January, your location-specific business phone number will display alongside your destination url in ads that appear on high-end ...
  1 day ago

• Google Maps & Web Designers: Salt in the Wounds

  
  Understanding Google Maps & Local Search — Authority: 431
  With the recent brouhaha over the missing 7 packs for SEO and Web Designers due to “lack of local intent” on the part of searchers, you would think that Google would have the common sense not to rub salt in the wounds. Well, you would have thought wrong. Whether by intent or accident, Google is still showing an ...
  1 day ago

• Confusing Local Search Intent At Google

  
  Search Engine Optimization Journal - Search Optimization Blog — Authority: 131
  Google rose to prominence by demonstrating a competence in discerning user intent and providing relevant search results. But this statement by Brian, a Google employee, on Google’s support forum is a bit confusing: Today, we’re intentionally showing less local results for web design / SEO queries. For example, ...
  2 days ago

• Local Search- Pre Season Conditioning

  
  Understanding Google Maps & Local Search — Authority: 431
  Name -descriptinve AND destinctive A Tag line - Domain Name- URL Whois Record (Keyword Research – understand what people are looking for Build a website) 200 Word Summary of what you do Category Research – Pick 10 from Google and Naics
  4 days ago

• Google to SEO’s, Designers & Advertising Agents: You are Off the Map!

  
  Understanding Google Maps & Local Search — Authority: 431
  Yesterday, Google’s Joel H has definitively confirmed that, at least in the whole of the US, Canada & the UK, they are no longer showing the 7 Pack on queries for Web Designers, Graphic Design, SEOs or Advertising Agents when paired with the City & ST. According to Google, the searches lack sufficient ...
  5 days ago

• How to rank in the #1 spot on Google

  
  Learn Free Internet Marketing Learn Free Internet Marketing Strategies using Video, Articles, Social Networking, Social Media, Web 2.0, Blogs, Affiliate Marketing — Authority: 166
  Find out the secret to getting in the top search results on Google! Share on Facebook
  1 week ago

• Now You Can Import Your Maps In Google City Tours-New Feature Rocks!

  
  vhxn.com — Authority: 141
  Now you can have a new feature from Google for importing custom maps. The name of the feature is Google City Tours, which generated walking tours for important cities. You can go to the importing page and select one of your maps, after logging to a Google Account. Moreover, this would be the most useful service if you ...
  1 week ago

• AdWords API v2009: Location Extensions

  
  D' Technology Weblog — Authority: 463
  So how can you get your business on the map? In addition to Local Business Ad ( LBA ), Googel with new AdWords interface and AdWords API v2009, have a much simpler solution available “Location Extensions,” that allow you to add location information to any text ad in your campaigns. Extending your ads with location ...
  1 week ago

• Local Search Google Ranking

  
  Get a Freelance Job — Authority: 182
  Failed scriptlance programmer couldn’t make the attempt If you can get the job done within 1day that would be great
  1 week ago

• Google Maps Adds New “Report A Problem” Link for Business Listing Spam & Errors

  
  Understanding Google Maps & Local Search — Authority: 431
  Google has recently added a “Report A Problem” Link for reporting business Listing spam & errors from within Maps. The link is available via the business listing info bubble where once you select “Edit” you are presented with a “Report A Problem” link that takes you to a short form. According to ...
  1 week ago

• Most Read Stories of 2009

  
  Understanding Google Maps & Local Search — Authority: 431
  2009 has been an exciting year of growth for local and for my blog. To all of those many folks world wide that have regularly contributed to the conversation and my learning I say THANK YOU! Here are the 10 Most Read Stories of 2009 (in order of total pageviews): 1.  Google replaces TeleAtlas data in the US with ...
  2 weeks ago

• Can Google GMaps Pass Ebay for Uniques in 2010?

  
  Understanding Google Maps & Local Search — Authority: 431
  Greg Sterling posted a Hitwise list of the Top 10 Sites for 2009. It showed ebay.com at the number 10 spot. According to Compete, Google Maps is approaching Ebay and if it can sustain its growth, might even pass them in the coming year even without the Yelp volume.
  2 weeks ago

• Google Mapping Tool Availability Matrix

  
  Understanding Google Maps & Local Search — Authority: 431
  Barry Schwartz has pointed out that last week, Google Maps added a chart showing which Google Maps services were available in which country . Maps is a global product that is offered in 200 some odd countries and there are a range of features available depending on licensing and data availability. Thus the matrix ...
  2 weeks ago

• Who gets the Traffic in the Local Space

  
  Understanding Google Maps & Local Search — Authority: 431
  The year has been an interesting one. The recent conversation of a possible acquisition of Yelp by Google motivated me to create this chart comparing traffic for the larger sites in the Local arena. The year started with Craig’s List and Mapquest holding a small lead over Google Maps. Citysearch held a solid ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google Maps Sentiment Analysis; Foreign Speakers Need Not Apply?

  
  Understanding Google Maps & Local Search — Authority: 431
  There are faux pas and there are FAUX PAS. Google Maps by virtue of its global scope and the occasional tin ear of its algo has managed to periodically insert itself into the culture wars of 21st Century. Google Maps has been accused of Chinese bias by the Indians and Indian bias by the Chinese and of course the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google and Yelp Could Change Local Search

  
  Search Engine Optimization Journal - Search Optimization Blog — Authority: 131
  It looks like Google is about to acquire Yelp . No surprise, really. Is there a vertical Google hasn’t made a purchase in? Two things happen when Google makes an acquisition in a vertical. A competitor comes along and outdoes them or Google develops the vertical into a profitable enterprise for itself. Notice I ...
  2 weeks ago

• Kml File Creation

  
  Get a Freelance Job — Authority: 182
  I need someone to show me how to create a KML file that will include additional fields into a Google Local listing. For example, most standard KML files only include the business address, description, etc. However, I believe there is a way to add additional fields in the KML file, such as by using the ExtendedData ...
  2 weeks ago

• Maps for Recovery & Yelp for Discovery – a great combo

  
  Understanding Google Maps & Local Search — Authority: 431
  Last night, reports started circulating (see TechCrunch who broke the story as well as Greg Sterling at SEL & Scoble for analysis) that Google was in late stage conversations to acquire Yelp for $500 million. It is deal that, whether it occurs or not, will have huge impact on the makeup of the local ...
  2 weeks ago

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