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...
Yahoo Local's business directories, offered for numerous cities, offer local searchers ratings and reviews, maps, and events where users can look up things such as hours of operation, photos, and driving directions.
Put another way, the social connections that bind us don't correlate to food taste or M.D.ratings. The true pace of mobile and local search can be seen when the market withstands an entire column's worth of updates and announcements in just one month.
With more than 100 million monthly unique visitors to the site (both on desktop and mobile), it's a great place to gain visibility for your company and create a place for reviews, ratings, and even some social engagement.
Say what you will about Facebook – I think it takes a smart approach to star ratings. And by the way, the ratings you see are not from Yelp. I know there's a lot of confusion about where the actual star ratings come from, so it's important to...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is reporting that social networking and web service companies are making strides towards becoming more transparent with users. In its annual Who Has Your Back?
I recently read an amusing history of "fascinating" TV ratings facts. The upcoming Digital Upfronts (a.k.a. NewFronts") have been dominating my conversations as of late, with a lot of it revolving around a single, albeit complicated, question: "How...
Upon digging into the ratings, I noticed a review that said, "profile link spam". I've completed a lot of Penguin work since April 24, 2012 (more than I ever wanted to if I'm being honest). When business owners first reach out to me about a Penguin...
The "Nielsen Twitter TV Rating" metric will correlate TV engagement and ratings.they've already been able to correlate an 8.5 percent increase in Twitter volume increasing the ratings for TV premieres by 1 percent.
Google also has no data on Joe's Shirts without any Google Seller Ratings, another knock against them. Google Seller Ratings is the obvious way Google could influence merchant rankings in SERPs. If a first-time shopper on Google Shopping sees two...
Rich Snippets markup provide the ratings, reviews count, and price range. The next step along the route to revenue looks at the "Consideration" phase where engagement – as well as other factors – can affect click-through rates (CTR) in search...
Live television events are seeing some of the highest ratings in years and social media brings a level of community and connection to TV watching the likes of which the medium has never before experienced.
Consider social analytics, social sign-on, ratings/reviews tools, YouTube paid account, video editing software, mobile app downloads, image subscriptions, etc. Check out these handy formulas for calculating tangible social media benefits...
Reviews and ratings using a combination of stars and displaying how many other people have reviewed the product. Turns out, you actually can.at least when it comes to your landing pages. In order to appeal to different buying modalities, you must...
Optimization should include authoritative coverage on versions, features, models, services, and include ratings, reviews and exposure to third-party endorsements and/or media coverage. Some are geo-local, some by reviews and ratings, some by brand...
Merchant Ratings. Bing currently works with PriceGrabber.com, ResellerRatings.com, and BizRate.com to display merchant ratings for businesses with 10 or more reviews and an average rating of 4.0+ on 5.0 scale.
Clicking 'compare' will enable you to handpick the companies or seo tools you are considering and compare them directly, whilst clicking 'see details' will bring up a full list of their services, address, phone number, ratings and reviews, notable...
Zagat Ratings in the SERPs As the end of the year rapidly approaches, year-end retrospectives that examine the changes from many different angles abound – from changes in how SEO is perceived in the organization to how the practice of SEO is...
Reviews are scored on a 30-point Zagat scale, which is derived by averaging individual user ratings, based on a 3-point scale and multiplying by 10. Yet, many small businesses still aren’t sure how to take advantage of Google+ Local.
Plugging your review text and ratings into any of these tools will result in code for you to place on your page. I'm a huge fan of schema protocols. I love the discipline of structuring data and showing Google exactly what I want them to index, and...
