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 [...]
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Tracking Local Search traffic using Analytics
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 [...]
New Help Resource for Local Business Center
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: [...]
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 Spam report option – tiny hooray for Google
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 [...]
Email preferences Local Business Center
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 [...]
Local Business Ads owners – please use the LBC to the fullest
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, [...]
Local Search Ranking factors discussed
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 [...]
Pain and hassles new Google Local Business Center
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 [...]
Updates on Google Local Business Center – What would you like to see?
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 [...]
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
