Below is a screenshot from Local SEO Update that illustrates what the screen looks like when you try to manage your listing or listings: With Bing you can manage multiple listings under one dashboard, which is a feature not every local channel allows.
The most common example of this are the Google AdWords listings in the Google search results. FTC also brings up social listings, such as the ones you see in Facebook’s Graph Search, or even Google+ influenced personalized results where some...
With basic SEO out of the way, you now need to think about straightening out your business listings and optimizing your off-site local pages like Google+, Yahoo, Bing, Yelp, and many others. Consistent, accurate name, address and phone number on...
With this new product, this is our chance to take advantage of a new, easy-to-use tool to quickly optimize our local listings. To meet this goal, Bing Places for Business includes a powerful bulk upload feature to manage multiple listings at once...
With the new style of carousel listings, when a user searches for a local results, such as a restaurant or hotel, instead of the traditional vertical listings most users associate with Google search, there is now a horizontal carousel which...
Pete at Moz wrote a fantastic post about the effect of SERP crowding for organic spots, due to features such as local listings, advertisements, the knowledge graph, rich snippets, etc. One easy way to tap into Google’s effort to provide deeper...
You can see we also have breadcrumbs in search results in Bing organic listings: Yoast uses rdfa markup for breadcrumbs – which was a precursor to schema – but it is still useful and works well in both Bing and Google.
to which Google replied: "There are several listings for cupcakes near San Diego," and then showed me local search results. Google unveiled conversational search at Google I/O last week, and began rolling it out on the latest version of Chrome this...
It continues with the importance of local directory listings, like ReferLocal, and how to make the most of them. One of the all-new chapters in the book, Optimizing for Local Search, introduces the importance of local search and how Google+ fits in.
For local business owners, this gives the potential for many more local listings to appear above the fold in the search results, since Google often only lists one or two local listings from Google+. The screenshots show what appears to be a similar...
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.
In 2011, Alibaba rolled out ETao, a comparison shopping engine that is said to have more than a billion product listings and over 5,000 business-to-consumer and group buying websites. If Alibaba takes Yahoo’s search algorithm and combines it with...
Remember when Google+ pulled their existing local listings and paired them with Zagat reviews, in order to share social endorsements, maps and business info with people on the go, giving them an edge for local search?
Since August, Google has been serving for some keywords, SERPs with 7 organic listings, instead of the usual 10 listings. In 2013, as Google rewards quality and relevancy, there are many opportunities to rank across multiple search types, and in...
The obvious opportunity is to charge for sponsored listings much like AdWords. I use Yelp to find restaurants, the Weather Channel app for local weather, Google Maps for directions, etc. This is a simple example that illustrates the difference...
By offering a helpline to businesses attempting to manage their Google+ listings, Google is lowering the barrier of entry, thereby increasing the number of businesses actively using Google+ Local. Google finally launched phone support for Google...
You definitely want to make sure your NAP is consistent across all local listings, in addition to your own website. For the site I was auditing, the address was only contained on the contact page, and it was different than the address located in...
Product listings / shopping for buying signals. Google spelling correction. We won’t dwell on Google’s Penguin and Panda updates as the nails in the coffin for over-optimized content and link profiles, but just know both of these algorithmic...
Type in your business name and ZIP code, then click “check my listings. The listings with a red mark are the opportunities (wink, wink) you will focus on. If you haven’t heard about NAP data in your Google+ account profile, you better figure it out...
This is where Google+ Local and Bing Local listings come in. A well-executed local SEO strategy means that you have both a website that is optimized for location specific keyword terms, as well as optimized local business listings, such as Google...
