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.
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...
The site overtook MySpace on Alexa's listings in 2008 and hasn't looked back since. Editor's note: This column originally was published on April 13, 2012, and comes in at No.on our countdown of the 10 most popular Search Engine Watch columns of 2012.
In this newsletter he doesn't try to sell you a house or even showcase his listings. Search engine local sites (Google Places, Yahoo Local, Bing Local) I'd also check add the names of any local colleges or universities, big trade schools, major...
Own SERP real estate.percent of visitors look at the top 2 AdWords results.percent above the fold for organic listings whereas 16 percent (and lower) below the fold. Search Engine Optimization Tips for Local
Sometimes, SEO is a matter of helping companies do better with their local/map listings. That is to say, Cutts works diligently to ensure that Google’s search results are “good” and he polices efforts by folks who try to (overtly) manipulate Google...
According to Slingshot, "Possibilities include 'related searches' on the sidebar, re- queries, Page 2, one of the tabs at the top, a paid result, or the images, videos, news, shopping, local listings results within the SERP.
However, after posting the original version of this article on August 16, a Google AdWords Express spokesperson contacted Search Engine Watch to make it clear that "Participation in AdWords Express does not affect the ranking of free, organic...
In one of the first moves to tie daily deals with local search, local entertainment directory Metromix is appending deals generated by their agreements with deal sites to business listings within their search directory.
Although Etao says it won't favor Taobao's listings in its organic search results, the ecommerce search engine will have to convince marketers like Tang that all brands have a fair go on its site. She emphasized that the search algorithm on Etao...
Google Places: Dave Davies also offers basic SEO advice on how you can improve your organic listings using Google Places (see Part 1 and Part 2). Also, many people still don't realize that YouTube is the second largest search engine, accounting for...
Be mindful of the way your organic listings appear in the search results. Listings designed to maximize CTR will have a ranking advantage. Here's a recap of this week's columns and news stories for the week of March 6 to 12, as reported by Search...
Notifying its search engine partners of the issue and encouraging them to accept the original organic listings feed delivered in the upcoming weekly data feed. On Thursday, February 17th, Localeze discovered that certain information including URLs...
To further complicate matters, there are now many more "products" (e.g.local business results, shopping feed listings) to compete against. Paid search results consistently give three listings at the top of the page now, with sitelinks and product...
Bing Feature Update: Check your local TV listings with Bing - Bing Search Blog Localeze's ambitions to be the single management source for all local listings on the web got yet another boost yesterday.
Should there be any major changes to the website, then often feeds need to be resubmitted causing a delay in how up-to-date the listings appear on the search engines. Today, software engineers Dmitry Pakhomkin and Artem Zarutskiy, have launched a...
Some of you may have noticed recently that your top listings in Google may look a little different. Listings that previously have held positions featuring the home page URL now feature the most relevant internal page.
Maximizing your listings around the long tail of your brand is a critical part of any SEO campaign. Part 1 and Part 2 of this series have covered how to measure search engine optimization (SEO) performance and why the new Google rankings data from...
The 3 Major Causes of Duplicate Listings in Local Search - Search Engine Journal Five signs your new SEO client may suck - Search Engine People IAC Boss Barry Diller Disses Ask, Says It Has "No Value" - Search Engine Land
If Google Instant results are cached to save bandwidth, then it's possible we may not seeing some of the same local (maps, business listings, etc.results that we were seeing before because of those cached pages.
