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Category Archives: Local SEO

Advice From Yelp – Don’t ask for reviews.

Lates business owners email from Yelp contains detailed advice on solicited reviews. It they say don’t “ask” for reviews, but with this link to Yelp’s door icons it seems like they mean don’t actively ask for reviews. Rather promote your presence on Yelp and focus on making satisfied customers. Don’t ask for reviews. “The best [...]

Analysis of Google’s New Local UI

Here: http://www.davidmihm.com/blog/google/new-local-ui/ Those of you who haven’t been out of town for the last three weeks (:D) have no doubt been keeping up with the latest changes to Local results in Google Universal search more assiduously than I have.  The screenshot below is taken fromMike Blumenthal’s excellent analysis of the change to the Authoritative OneBox–which has [...]

Google LBC Best Practices – Phone Number Verification

This week I claimed the Google Local Business Center profile listing for a new local client, heat transfer equipment manufacturer Diversified Heat Transfer Inc. The company has been in business for over 75 years, so their Google LBC profile has to be pretty well aged. The phone number in Google data was an older number, [...]

Google Local Business Dashboard

On June 2nd, 2009, Google launched a new feature that changes the local local businesses. For the first time, local business got access to the analytics data for their company listing in Google Maps. In Google’s own words from the announcement on June 2nd: Now, imagine if there were a way for you to get [...]