Comments on: Now I’ve Seen Everything in Local Search

By: Marc Liron

Marc Liron — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:10:34 +0000

They have stopped using it now.

Just the default maps.google.com

Wonder if they were asked to stop using it?

Regards

Marc Liron MVP

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:44:12 +0000

Could be one of a couple reasons but two particularly come to mind…
1.) He is a small shop not in need of a website when his massive number of reviews online do the talking for him. Look at the pics on the profile…the place is smaller and kind of a mom and pop feel…why waste advertising dollars on a site? (in his mind not mine)
2.) He knows that by having TINYURL on the map results he automatically stands out in comparison to those with traditional URLS. Just a thought. Great observation though!

Joe@SeenSolutions

By: Turundus

Turundus — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 17:09:06 +0000

I think that this business owner heard that one of his friends is using internet for business promotion. He said: I got to have this also!. So he logged into Yelp as his friend an put his business information up. Wise friend suggested that he should promote his Yelp account and Tinyurl was the best solution. So he has a website, its in Yelp. Soon there will be Internets in THE Internet, and maybe some of them will be bigger Internet than THE Internet…. spooky

By: Carl

Carl — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:03:34 +0000

I have a different take on why he is using his yelp profile page as a website. Many small business owners don’t like to spend money. They see things (advertising) as an expense, and I bet he sees a website as another expense, with no chance for any ROI. So he does the next thing he can think of, use his YELP profile page as his website. It does have all his important information, address, phone number etc. However, in his quest to save some money, he has now lead every prospective customer to Yelp where they will start looking at other options, and he might lose these customers. If he would have sent them to his REAL website, then he has their FULL attention. They still might not go to dinner there, but atleast his chances of converting then to paying customer is greater, then the yelp idea.

By: James Svoboda

James Svoboda — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:23:53 +0000

David Hopkins,

I see many spam flower/florist business listings showing up in local searches. Primarily for smaller cities. Google is not making it very easy to report these.

By: Allyn

Allyn — Sat, 23 May 2009 12:18:22 +0000

No no no, you guys are missing the real point here. It is a breakfast choice on the menu, the “Tiny Url” (pronounced ‘earl’) with eggs, bacon and parm cheese! LOL