Category: Local Search
As Promised, Google Unmerged and Re-Merged My Wife’s Google Places Listing
The fun continues with my wife’s business listing in Google Places! As expected, Google has unmerged her listing with the Windermere Real Estate office in Richland. But it’s since re-merged the listing and created an even bigger mess. Ready to follow along? Google emailed to let me know the merged-with-Richland issue was being fixed. Sure [...]
Hey Dentists: You’re On Avvo
From lawyers to doctors and now … dentists. Avvo has announced that it’s building out a dentists’ directory in the U.S. to complement its existing lawyer and doctor directories. But it sounds like this is still a work in progress. Avvo says dentists from all over the country are available to take part in the [...]
Touché Google & Yelp! Foursquare Now Has Restaurant Menus
Still not sure if Foursquare is serious about local search? Consider this: The site just added menus thanks to a partnership with SinglePlatform. I’ll explain below why I think this matters. First, how many menus are we talking about? How many restaurants? Foursquare says it’s getting more than 13 million menu items from nearly 250,000 [...]
Google Emails To Let Me Know My Wife’s Merged Listing Will Be Merged Again
I think it’s great that Google is trying to improve customer service. In trying to fix my wife’s current merged listing cluster****, they’ve sent me more emails than I could’ve ever imagined. Yay Google! Except the last email they sent wasn’t so good. Yesterday, Google emailed me to let me know that they’re going to [...]
Foursquare: The Web’s Newest Local Search Engine (But There’s One Big Question)
If you’re a local business owner, Foursquare isn’t a novelty anymore. Oh, sure, the points and badges and the game elements are still there, but Foursquare became a full-fledged local search engine yesterday with some nifty search and filtering options thanks to what’s now a whopping 1.5 billion check-ins. The new toy can be found [...]
Google Places History, From 2004 to Today
I know I posted about this earlier on Search Engine Land, but it bears repeating here in the event that anyone reading this doesn’t also read SEL (why not?). Read and bookmark this: A Brief History of Google Places I’m not sure what’s “brief” about it, but David Mihm has put together a great reference [...]
Which is More: Claimed Google Place Pages or Businesses with Facebook Pages?
This is one of the long-running questions in my local search peer network, and perhaps one of the more important questions going forward when it comes to small businesses and online marketing. The general consensus is that there are more small businesses with Facebook Pages than with claimed Google Place Pages. That comes from anecdotal [...]
Submit Your Business to Acxiom via “My Business Listing Manager”
Quick post here to share something that’s news to me: Local businesses can submit a listing to Acxiom online via a site called My Business Listing Manager. This is important because Acxiom is one of the three primary business data aggregators in the U.S. (along with Localeze and Infogroup), and for years there’s been no [...]
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