Google is introducing the star rating system across a range of its products, Google Maps for Mobile, Google Search and Google Plus Local. Local search really needs a lot of attention going forward as SEO evolves and multi-device use increases. From Google; We’re mapping individual ratings to the star system using the following framework: Previous […]
Google Updates Places Quality Guidelines
Just came through updates in the Google Places Quality guidelines (http://support.google.com/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=107528) with regards to practitioners and departments within businesses and it is always interesting to see what they are up to. Managing every business in the world using automated scraping is always going to be messy to get right. Quote : Do not create more […]
New Google Places Layout in Search Results
Google has released a new layout for places listings, as they continue to work on making more money for themselves. I am waiting for them to charge for their places/maps listings … This of course impacts natural search rankings and shows how important the Google Places business listings really are these days; See this pic […]
10 percent of google local search clicks go to google places pages
Wow interesting statements and answers coming from US senate hearing witness claims, from Nextag, Yelp, Fairsearch against Google; CLAIM: “Is a consumer (or a small business, for that matter) well served when Google artificially promotes its own properties regardless of merit? This has nothing to do with helping consumers get to the best information; it […]
Choosing Google Places Categories
Choosing the right categories in Google is not so easy as Google does not tell you what they are exactly. You might find something close but how do you pick other categories? Consensus out there at the moment is you should not make categories up, but use what Google has available. Mike Blumenthal has released […]
