David Mihm has been showing off his whiteboard skills over at SEOmoz whiteboard friday. I really want to share these 2 video’s with my readers.
The first video is about Local Search Inclusion:
SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – Local Search Inclusion with David Mihm
The second video is about SEO for Local Search
SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – SEO for [...]
One of the most important things after you have registered your business is to know how much traffic this will get to your website. I’ve put up a very thorough tutorial on Mike Blumenthal’s blog and I suggest you all check it out.
I’ll put up a part here in this post to give you guys [...]
Just before the weekend Google decided to launch a new help center. This time it is one that is well appreciated by small business owners and us local search people. Its a Help resource on how to set up the Local Business Center.
You can find the all new help resource at the following link:
Local Business [...]
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 link [...]
This morning I read on Matt’s Blog that Google opened up a thread in the Google Maps Help Groups for Business Owners where we are now able to post our Google Maps spam issues. You can find it here
In the meanwhile, colleague in the Local Search business, Mike Blumenthal featured a little story what Google [...]
I might be wrong on this one, but I just was presented with the following when entering the Local Business Center. I have never seen this message before (maybe because I’m normally using european google engines )
The Local Business Center is asking me to provide my email preferences as you can see in the screenshot [...]
This is a call to all Local Business Ads owners.
If you are running an Adwords campaign for your Local Business Ads I’m quite sure you have entered your business details in the Local Business Center.Most probably you are running the Adwords campaign because you want people actually visiting your website. Well, best thing is, you [...]
David Mihm compiled an excellent article in collaboration with some SEO guys who are particularly interested in the local search optimization.
We see highlights of the most important ranking factors, and also those that might harm your rankings. Must read for small businesses and anyone doing local optimization.
Although this article is quite focussed on the US [...]
Google is changing their Local Business Center interface. For many of you, you will start thinking, YES! finally!
Actually I like the new interface and it definitely encourages people to add more data to their business listings. In the old tabbed model you were able to just finish after entering your business details and forget about [...]
I have been using the Google Local Business Center (LBC) for quite some time now.
Setting up your account and adding business locations is really easy, that is, if it’s only a few.
What happens when adding multiple listings using the bulk-upload method? For me this is the preferred method. It’s lightning fast, it tells you which [...]
