Comments on: Alerts on Place Pages? I Want More From Google http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/alerts-on-place-pages-i-want-more-from-google/2654/ Because not everyone can throw thousands of dollars at the 'How do we market ourselves online?' question... Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:57:14 +0000 hourly 1 By: JK http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/alerts-on-place-pages-i-want-more-from-google/2654/#comment-225705 JK Tue, 02 Nov 2010 20:25:00 +0000 http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/?p=2654#comment-225705 Great post and great ideas. I imagine that Google will only ever allow Google features to appear on the Places page so Facebook etc. probably won't feed in. This is inconvenient and also fragmenting a business's content online by forcing business owners to replicate material across all of the features online, e.g. on Yell, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Google. Great post and great ideas. I imagine that Google will only ever allow Google features to appear on the Places page so Facebook etc. probably won’t feed in. This is inconvenient and also fragmenting a business’s content online by forcing business owners to replicate material across all of the features online, e.g. on Yell, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and Google.

]]> By: Paul Dumas http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/alerts-on-place-pages-i-want-more-from-google/2654/#comment-182915 Paul Dumas Thu, 28 Jan 2010 20:39:04 +0000 http://www.smallbusinesssem.com/?p=2654#comment-182915 I like your list of things that you'd like to see Google do, but my wish list is simpler - let a business owner choose what feeds show on their listing. The biggest complaint I get from my small business customers is that aside from the Maps listing itself, they have no control over where Google pulls additional information. It would be great to be able to choose. If Twitter is your thing, then choose it. If MerchantCircle is your marketing choice du jour, then port that. The choice would allow the small business owner to utilize their Google Maps listing to put forth a branding image consistent with what the business is doing across a focused spectrum. I like your list of things that you’d like to see Google do, but my wish list is simpler – let a business owner choose what feeds show on their listing. The biggest complaint I get from my small business customers is that aside from the Maps listing itself, they have no control over where Google pulls additional information.

It would be great to be able to choose. If Twitter is your thing, then choose it. If MerchantCircle is your marketing choice du jour, then port that. The choice would allow the small business owner to utilize their Google Maps listing to put forth a branding image consistent with what the business is doing across a focused spectrum.

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