Late least year Google made a number of changes to its search results display one of which was to combine Google Places with organic results. Here how it looks now for internet marketing Adelaide Notice that the organic result for my site (A) above is merged with my Google Places information, and I can choose [...]
Google are reviewing the link value or ‘authority’ for Facebook & Twitter links. Matt Cutts says: “We do use Twitter and Facebook links in ranking as we always have in our web search rankings, but in addition we’re also trying to figure out a little bit about the reputation of an author or creator on [...]
Google has launched a new blog which brings together small business-relevant resources from across Google’s staggering range of often free products & services. The Small Business blog has already offered up some excellent advice including: How to respond to business reviews on your Place page Templates for creating YouTube videos Tips for employees use of [...]
I notice that Google Maps LBC (or Google Places as it is now branded) has introduced quality control systems and is rejecting entries that don’t met the quality guidelines. It will be interesting to see what happens
I notice that the Google Maps Local Business Centre now refers to itself as Google Places…
I stumbled over this interesting info for the politically paranoid recently. Google publishes a map at http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/ that shows the number of Government requests that they received received between July 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009 to remove content. Make of it what you will… http://www.google.com/governmentrequests/
Does the size of a website affect its authority in Google? Matt Cutt says no, but links do matter! “>