Image via Understanding Google Maps and the change comes not long after the launch of the new Google Places for Business dashboard. The link, which had been located in Google's "More" drop-down menu option, is no longer there, meaning local...
Google Places For Business Gets Its Own iPhone App For Managing Listings [Update: Google Removed App] – Search Engine LandThe app was accidentally released early, no word on when/if it will actually be available again.
Google search manipulation starves some websites of traffic – PCWorldHarvard Business School associate professor Ben Edelman, who is a paid Microsoft consultant, puts out another anti-Google study, this time on flight search, and reports an "85...
Structured Data, Google Highlighter, and How Can They Help Your Business – ClickZIf you're a small business, Google has actually made it pretty darn simple, easy, and cheap to implement structured data on your site if you have any kind of event...
Tips to Streamline Google AdWords for Small Business – ClickZ A new Google Places for Business interface rolls out. Try one or some of these combinations in Google AdWords to find the optimal formula for small business.
Also, “if a business accepts paper comment cards it might be tempting to collect them and ‘digitize’ them by posting the reviews on Google+ Local,” Google says in its advice for SEOs. And Google has shared some advice with reviewers, business...
Federal Trade Commission closed the books on its 19-month investigation into Google’s business practices. The FTC concluded:
we find that the evidence presented at this time does not support the allegation that Google’s display of its own vertical...
Google Penguin Update: 5 Types of Link Issues Harming Some Affected Websites by Danny Goodwin Achievements: 1st Most Liked Article (all Categories), 2nd Most Discussed Article (all Categories), #Winner Most Read SEO Story
Katz is in the spotlight for authoring a rather weak anti-Google rant, “Google’s Monopoly and Internet Freedom”, using the Wall Street Journal as his platform as we get closer to the July 2 deadline the European Union has set for Google to adjust...
Mayer, the youngest woman to ever appear on Fortune’s list of the 50 most powerful women in business (at No.in 2011), was the first female engineer hired at Google in 1999 and one of the first 20 employees.
Now when people click on a search ad, Google will teleport through time and space – directly to a business location. Applicants must be friendly, energetic and playful, as well as demonstrate "great teamwork within a business kennel environment...
Among the top takeaways Kaushik shared with marketers in his high-energy talk on Business Optimization in a Digital Age: be less wrong, stop guessing, and develop an "insane focus. His keynote focused on creating an "enormously awesome" experience...
Google noted that 89 percent of smartphone owners take some kind of action after looking up local content:
percent called a business or service
percent made an in-store purchase from a business
percent made an online purchase from a business...
Google is advising localbusiness to maintain their Google Places Page in addition to creating a new Google+ Page. We encourage you to continue maintaining the information in your Google Places account to help ensure that potential customers can...
Tim and Nina Zagat attempted to sell the business in 2008 for a reported $200 million, but found no takers. Google promises that Zagat ratings and reviews, which are currently behind a paywall, will become a “cornerstone” of Google’s local offering.
The New York Times’ large spotlight is on Google again, this time showing how easy it is for localbusiness owners to become victims of abuse from spammers fraudulently reporting a business as closed.
In this simplified version of AdWords, Google manages the ad campaign for the business, deciding which local product or service searches will trigger the ads. In addition to the company name, address, phone number, and website, AdWords Express ads...
Punchd, a smartphone-based loyalty card business, has been acquired by Google for an amount believed to be more than $10 million. While it’s good for customers who don’t have to carry around paper cards, it also gives localbusiness some useful...
With Google reporting that mobile search traffic has grown five-fold in the past two years, Google said that it would be focusing much more attention on mobile searching, due in part to the role it was playing in augmenting its desktop business.
The first business Portland-area residents can expect to find is a 70 percent discount on drinks, pastries and treats at Floyd’s Coffee Shop. Business Insider has live blog coverage of Schmidt's interview.