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Google Local Business Center Becomes “Google Places”

From Search Engine Land: Google has decided to change the name of what was called the “Google Local Business Center” to “Google Places.” The rationale, according to the press release, is to better connect Google Place Pages with the place where local business information is claimed, entered and enhanced: Why? Millions of people use Google [...]

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 [...]