The Knowledge Graph knows that Santa Cruz is a place, and that this list of places are related to Santa Cruz" In an article for Search Engine Watch earlier this month, Guillaume Bouchard forecast how to optimize for Google Now, citing local SEO as...
The screenshots show what appears to be a similar style imagery at the bottom which could easily be changed to local listings instead of the screenshots showing local attractions and places of interest.
Users can also rate places they checked into by using Nearby in their Facebook mobile app (now called "Local Search" on iOS). When performing local searches in Graph Search, Facebook surfaces places that my friends and connections have liked and...
This is an interesting development, considering Google has pledged to label Places Search results, as well as link to three competitor sites in Europe, as shown in this illustration: Google has removed the link to Places search.
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.
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 searches, or "Other...
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. Google Places for Business gets a new interface with more Google+ integration. Improving the look and feel of Google Places for Business – Google and Your Business Blog
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.
Going to the same places, using the same footprints and scraping the same advanced search parameters will only result in obtaining the same links as everyone else. In order to get the most results possible, try searching for established categories...
As geofencing networks get larger and partner with major carriers this could be come a great solution for small businesses / sole traders in crowded places like malls and markets. While you need physical location to play in Google+ Local and the...
We have already arrived at a post-search era when users and visits are coming from an ever-greater variety of places, using discovery-type apps and sites like Foursquare and Yelp as opposed to traditional search engines.
In 2013, as Google rewards quality and relevancy, there are many opportunities to rank across multiple search types, and in multiple formats to dominate the new Google SERP results across image, video, places, news and social media results.
Knowledge graph “instant results” for people, places and things. Users are entering “queries” – phrases that match specific search intent – and Google attempts to match that intent based on search data, click data, and heuristics, and then serves...
These websites are incremental places to gather CPC based traffic, and in many cases pre-qualify those leads better than Google can. Expect 2013 PPC budgets to be more diversified outside of Google paid search.
A boxed result akin to 'Snapshots' called 'Places' were previously in the main organic results and functioned as drivers to the places category of search result. People and places snapshots strongly resemble Google's Knowledge graph cards, but it...
SERPs now not only include blue links but also images, video, places, and news, among others. Google’s recent changes with regard to social signals and local search signify an important shift and focus on mobile search as, in parallel, mobile...
Just click the little camera in the Google image search bar and you can query an image link or a local file and it tells you all the places where your image has been found. To get to verbatim from a Google SERP, click on Search tools, then you'll...
So in this case you have the new Google+ Local result, Google Places. Google+ Local or Google Places - Local SUX OK, just kidding, but whether site links, rich snippets, or the Knowledge Graph (to name a few) Google is experimenting with its...
Last year, Google acquired Zagat and earlier this summer, integrated Zagat reviews with the merged Google+ Pages/Places. As Google has increased its content and services, it has unfairly favoured them in its search results and damaged competitors.
