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The “Ultimate” List of Google Manual SPAM Action Viewer Messages 9 Aug 2013 | 12:55 am
Google Webmaster Tools just launched the Manual SPAM Action Viewer which alerts webmasters to manual SPAM issues with their sites. Like a good SEO consultant, I quickly ran through all of my clients ...
Can I Use ALL CAPS in Google Maps? 8 Aug 2013 | 11:40 pm
In my SEL post 7 Things I Have Figured Out About The New Google Maps, I mentioned that businesses might want to try using ALL CAPS in their business name on their Google Places + Local (whateva) profi...
Top Local Search Ranking Factors 2013 8 Aug 2013 | 03:58 am
David Mihm has published 2013′s Local Search Ranking Factors Survey over at Moz. As is tradition, I will summarize it here and encourage you to head over to David’s post to soak in the data: “By and l...
No Reviews? The New Google+ Local Reviews Pop-Up Doesn’t Pop 31 Jul 2013 | 11:23 pm
Based on the comments I am seeing on yesterday’s post, it appears that the new Google+ Local Reviews Pop-Up has gone global. Since it seems like this is a real thing and not a test, I started looking ...
Google+ Local Reviews Now Showing as SERP Pop-Ups – Goodbye Google+ Local Pages? 31 Jul 2013 | 01:31 am
Not sure if I am seeing a test or if this is rolling out everywhere but now when I click on the “[#] Google reviews” link for a business from the SERPs, I am seeing a lightbox type of pop up display i...
What Job Is Apple Maps Hired To Do? 22 Jul 2013 | 08:58 pm
Hint: Not this one…ripped off from Tumblr. I asked a bunch of Local Search geeks which company will Apple Maps buy next?. The post What Job Is Apple Maps Hired To Do? appeared first on Local SEO Guid...
Yext Quarterly Social & Local Hot Off The Presses 19 Jul 2013 | 01:14 am
Yext has just released the latest Yext Quarterly, a report on Social & Local search trends produced by Greg Sterling and yours truly. From Yext CEO, Howard Lerman’s intro: “If you had asked me five y...
@willcritchlow Sez Include Twitter Name in Titles via @localseoguide #mozcon 10 Jul 2013 | 06:00 am
Shameless traffic driver. I know. Sorry. The post @willcritchlow Sez Include Twitter Name in Titles via @localseoguide #mozcon appeared first on Local SEO Guide.
The Google Local Carousel & Local Directories 2 Jul 2013 | 09:48 pm
“Nostalgia means the pain from an old wound…” – Don Draper When Google’s new Local Carousel came to a town near you a couple of weeks ago, I immediately envisioned the Don Drapers of local search in c...
Google News Stopped Indexing Your Sitemap? 21 Jun 2013 | 08:32 pm
UPDATE: This just in from Chris Andrews, one of the top contributors to the Google News Help Forum “Google News is working on a system-wide fix for the ‘not in the Google News database‘ error-message ...
