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 more places than ever, we've been asked by governments to remove political content that people post on our services. From July to December 2012 Google received 2,285 government requests to remove content from its platforms, an all-time high.
Google Places Search On searches that trigger Google local results, Google will mark links to its reviews as "Google Places Search", and also include the option to search local results on three "other relevant providers" to the right on desktop...
People seek answers, content, and conversation in both search engines and social networks, so marketers need to be in both places where these conversations and searches are occurring. Neither Google nor Facebook are there yet.
On the user side, Facebook is back and forth on Places, check-ins and other location features. They have the opposite problem of Google: Thousands of "feet on the street" reps to get their arms around SMBs; but not always the same product focus or...
You could list all your social profiles, blogs and websites, post photos and videos, map places you've lived for your entire life, provide your address and contact information – all in one spot. Not long after Google+ was launched, I came to the...
The group claimed that Google favors its own apps over others, placing them in prominent places on Android phones and tablets. Google reportedly has reached a deal with European Union (EU) regulators regarding its so-called anticompetitive search...
In order to facilitate story-telling, Tourism Australia allows you to find places in Australia that your friends have visited using the Discover app on Facebook. And Google, which had acquired travel behemoth Frommers in August 2012, has recently...
You have tons of data, but there are some common places that people start to get an idea of how their pages are performing for their visitors. During the Landing Page Optimization session at SES New York 2013, Justin Cutroni (@justincutroni...
Google Places was recently replaced with Google+ Local – a merging of Places and Plus that serves up your Google+ Local listing in Search and Maps results on mobile devices and traditional browsers. Google's previous local algorithm for Places was...
A new Google Places for Business interface rolls out. Improving the look and feel of Google Places for Business – Google and Your Business Blog Google Places for Business gets a new interface with more Google+ integration.
So as Google places more value on link relevancy, so should you. But it's statements like "relevance is the new PR" (emphasis on "new"), aggressive Penguin refreshes and updates, the evolution of SERP behavior, and the devaluation of keyword anchor...
If the user clicks the comments icon the template places the user discussion right alongside the article content as seen below – no need to scroll to the bottom of the page: Local intent keywords are mostly mobile, so you need mobile landing pages...
You might be a Display Network expert, or a PLA expert, or a Remarketing Expert, or a Google Local Buzz Merchant Center Places Plus Expert (or whatever they’re calling that thing today), but there are simply too many moving parts to be more than...
Newsjacking, a type of content marketing, places the emphasis on breaking news events rather than how-tos or technical Information and rides the wave of existing demand for news information to get well-earned backlinks and branded mentions.
Furthermore, knowing the equilibrium price can, theoretically, help you find arbitrages, places where the market is not at equilibrium and the price is lower than what it should (and will) be. These shifts will occur until CPC will stabilize where...
A rule of thumb: if your content isn't of a higher quality than the places you'd like to acquire a link, then don't try. Watch Google Trends and Twitter. Many of the benefits of blogging are specific to industries.
Google Shopping places a relevance score on merchants that relates to how complete a merchant's data is (how much information a merchant provides Google in the data feed), how fresh that merchant's data is (do they submit a new data feed each week...
A digital environment capable of delivering information and solutions and promoting interaction between people, places, and things to support the goals of the organization it was created for. Making sure you claim and regularly monitor your Google...
Google Maps for iPhone has been updated with new local search icons to help you more quickly find restaurants, coffee shops, bars, gas stations, and other places. As part of the free update, Google has also added your contacts as search suggestions.
