David Mihm, already wrote about citation sources for Local SEO. These citations can help you in your efforts to get better rankings in the SERPS. David contacted me about the guide to international citations he planned to publish and I was happy to do some research in this issue. With a special focus on the [...]
Local Search will bring you in the year of 2009…
The following! With each new year, people start creating lists. Things to do, things not to do. Well, here is mine for the year of 2009. more collaborated research more in-depth local SEO tactics A new template design WordPress Plugin(s) Update(s) to my tutorial: KML for Local SEO Street View Europe Local Citation Sources Europe [...]
Changing Location
Communications Tower, Torre Telefónica, Barcelona, Spain Hola, all readers out there. Some of you already know that I moved back to the Netherlands but I wanted it to be official Barcelona is where I have spent the last 10 months of my life and it is actually the location where I decided to start this [...]
The Year 2008 in Google Maps
What has changed with Google Maps in the year 2008? Google Maps Mania put up a thorough summary of everything that was going on in the last year. It covers Street View availability in location throughout the world including Spain, France and Italy. The two major upgrades to the interface and many many other stuff [...]
What to do for Christmas..
Oh what fun it is to ride with Gooooo-gle Maps explained, hey! So what to do? Start shopping! Or find your way to a nice restaurant. Get coupons, because we’re in the middle of a crisis here! Or in search of some entertainment and track Rudolph and Santa. All with a little bit of help [...]
Google Street View – give me more
Google Street View, more and more, now double the coverage! This is what the official LatLong blog is reporting once again. Things seems to go fast now! First it was the bigscreen update and now again extended coverage after New Zealand became available as well. Coverage has been extended to new cities in states that [...]
When you embed your own Google Maps, don’t forget to…
It’s been a while ago that Google introduced a very easy way to embed a Google Map into your website, without needing to sign up for a Google Maps API key. A lot of website owners are using these embedded maps because it’s very easy to implement on your website by just going to the [...]
Google Maps Interface Revamped for Street View
The Google Maps interface was revamped, again, to get a better user experience, especially by putting more attention to Google Street View and to increase maps usage in general. This was just announced on the Google LatLong blog When you drag the pegman (the little yellow mascotte) from the zoom bar to the map you [...]
Fixing incorrect business information
I was just reading through Miriam’s Solas webdesign blog and read something I didn’t knew was there before. Here goes the story: If you encounter some incorrect business information for Emergency Services in Google it is possible to use a special contact form to notify Google of these errors. If you’ve discovered incorrect business information [...]
Google Notebooks and Security – a wake up call
This is a public safety warning. Google indexes public notebooks. Their robots.txt shows Google doesn’t disallow this. They only prevent the search results from being indexed, as you can see on the following image, or by looking directly at robots.txt As some recent small research from Arjan Snaterse has pointed out, these notebooks can be [...]
About Martijn
I'm Martijn Beijk, Digital Analytix Consultant with comScore. In my sparetime I specialize in Local Search.
My enthusiasm lays in Local & Mobile, including location-based services, context-awareness, semantic web and things as such.
Want to get in touch or hire me? contact me by mail or at Twitter: @martijnbeijk
