Tag Archives: Google Maps
Google Shakes UP Local…And We’re Still Feeling the Aftershocks

Google Shakes UP Local…And We’re Still Feeling the Aftershocks

It’s been a few weeks since Google turned the local search world on its head and Google isn’t done yet. They appear to be enjoying themselves, changing things up every couple of days. I’ll tell you all about it in this month’s update.

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Google Warns Users About Flash and Other Updates

Google Warns Users About Flash and Other Updates

Google has decided to take another step against Adobe Flash ®.  Now, if your website uses Flash ®, instead of just showing your normal website information in the search results, Google is including a warning “Uses Flash. May not work on your device. Try anyway | Learn more.” for anyone searching on a mobile device.  […]

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August SEO Update: Google’s Movin’ Like a Freight Train

Google’s been moving like a freight train lately and this month is no exception, making major changes in both locally and nationally. In this video I’ll discuss the changes Google made to their local search, the new link building guidelines Google released, and what Google and Bing are doing about child pornography.

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June SEO Update: Penguin Who? and Prism Impacts Search

June SEO Update: Penguin Who? and Prism Impacts Search

We’ll discuss Penguin 2.0 a bit and look at how the secret government program, Prism, is impacting search as well as look at some other changes that happened in the past several weeks in this month’s SEO Update.

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Google Places Switches to Google+ Local

Google Places Switches to Google+ Local

In another attempt to force more people to use Google+…I mean, In an attempt to make your local listings more social and interactive, Google switched all Google Places listings over to Google+ Local at the beginning of this month (June).  You do not need to do anything regarding the switch as all information, images, reviews, […]

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Google Places Removes External Reviews

Google Places Removes External Reviews

Google has removed the reviews from the Google Places listings which were being scraped from other review sites like Insiderpages.com, Judysbook.com, etc.  For now, at least, Google will only be displaying the reviews people have left on the actual Google Places listings.  Instead of showing the reviews from other sites, Google will have links after […]

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Google Maps Adds Descriptive Phrases

Google Maps Adds Descriptive Phrases

Google has announced that listings in Google Maps will now include descriptive phrases associated with the listing. “Google Maps search results in the U.S. and Great Britain will include some of the phrases which are most frequently used to describe those places. These phrases come from sources all across the web, such as reviews, web pages […]

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