Google Starts Notifying Business Owners on Google Places Listing Changes
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Update, 14 Oct, 4:30AM EST: A few minutes before I actually post the article, Google sent emails to some of our clients notifying them that changes will occur soon. You can read more details on the contents of this email in the next post. A few days ago I wrote about what we could expect from Google Places in the …
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Ideas on Google Places Improvements and What to Expect
A few weeks ago Google started an initiative to collect ideas on what should be changed with Google Places. Overall, 574 people have submitted 233 ideas and voted 4,457 times. I purposefully did not promote this at the time when it was active, because I noticed it was very easy for to be abused and for nice ideas to be …
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New Rule: You Can’t Create Google Places Listing at a Location You Do Not Own
Update, 18 Oct 2011, 1PM EST: The rule was amended and the words “as a custom attribute” were removed. That was caused by the fact that these attributes currently do not show up on the Place pages, therefore this part of the rule did not make sense. It is a different topic if in a description limited to 200 characters …
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Google Places – Currently the Best Online Marketing Tool for SMBs?
This week was full of intriguing news, starting with the introduction of a new support feature for Google Places (practically the closest to customer service that Google has ever offered for Places), continuing on with the Think Local event in London, and the announcement of iPhone 4S and Siri, and finishing with the somehow sudden pass away of Steve Jobs. …
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5 Reasons Why Google Places Is a Black Hat Heaven
Google Places is one of the best examples of how Google could get use of its tremendous importance in the life of a small business owner. As Places results show up for almost every search term now, it is practically impossible to overlook them. They gradually turn into a must for the online marketing of any size companies. However, the …
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What It Takes for Google to Fix Problems Promptly
Update September 15: Mike Blumenthal that Google fixed the problem with the “closed” issue. Here is the official statement of the G team: As promised, we’ve recently made a change to our process of displaying when a business has been reported to be closed on its place page. More specifically, we have removed the interim notification about a report having …
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Ways to Get Support for Google Places Problems
It is no secret that Google does not provide (almost) any support for Google Places issues. When one clicks on “Contacting us” on the Google Places Help Center, they are directed to a page suggesting that the problem should be posted on the Google Places Help Forum. Supposedly, anyone should get proper answer by “other users” or “Google Guides”. 1. …
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URL Shortener Added to Google Places
Update: Google just officially announced the short URL on Maps (about 10 hours after my original post) About a month ago Google announced a new URL shortcut, that was to link only to official company’s products – g.co. One of these products is Google Places and they managed to find the right place to use it – to shorten the …
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Google Returns the Red Star Review Bar on Places
To stick to the trend of never-ending changes on Google Places, today Google got back to the red stars bar for Google reviews. Since November 2010, the star bar has been in yellow color, a consequence of an update in the system of review writing. In some countries the modification hadn’t been evident (being sure about Brazil, Mexico and Argentina). …
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Google Loves The Places 1-Box Results
In the last 2 months after Google stopped showing photos next to the Google Places listing in the organic search results, there was a lot of talk around the changes Google are doing on the so-called branded one-box. The box is the equivalent of the 1-pack result that was showing up before for keywords with very low competition and very …
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