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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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: [...]
Google Local Business Center awaiting updates
Mike was fast with his catch on the LBC awaiting an update! I wonder if it has something to do with his previous post that has drawn some attention. Anyway, here’s the screenshot! Update: as Maps Guide Brian posted in the Google Groups the Local Business Center will also undergo some maintenance the 6th of [...]
Slideshare as a citation source
Some of us might know Slideshare, the online platform where you can store your presentation slides to share with the rest of the world. It appears that this website is a valuable source for local citation building. The real value, or the amount of it that might affect your ranking could vary. If your presentation [...]
Local Search with Google Earth on the iPhone!
Google just released one of their most popular products, Google Earth, with over 400 million downloads for the iPhone! It’s a free download from the iTunes App store and it also features the My Location feature. Local Search information with Google Earth right on your iPhone! The iPhone seems to be a perfect device for [...]
Quality Guidelines and reinclusion for Google Maps
Some technical difficulties with his blog doesn’t stop Mike to get up early today and post his very interesting findings on an update in the Google Maps Help Center. The Google Maps Help Center now contains some guidelines for your business inclusion and also, what to do when you got kicked out of Google Maps [...]
Local Business Center Oddities
It looks like the Local Business Center is tightening its submission policies and some oddities are starting to appear. This is the list so far: First, the use of too many capitals is being prohibited. The following screenshot shows an example of use of roman numbers and its being classified as ‘overuse’ of capitals. Sounds [...]
The research Quest
I was searching for some documentation about on site embedded Google Maps implementations and geocoding features of the Google Maps API. Many times, I have to remember myself, to look into the google code pages. Because they turn out to be a very helpful resource of information. So, with some help, I ran across this [...]
Fix incorrect marker option is back!
Word has that Google put back the ‘fix incorrect marker location’. Google Maps Guide Sirene posted this in the Google groups. So it’s not necessary anymore to use the trick I used for you US users to change the interface/engine by switching back to a European one, where we are still awaiting the updates. Screen [...]
What should Google do?
What should Google do to make their Google Maps product more successful? First off all, in the ‘link’ feature, to send people links of google maps, they should provide you with some sort of tinyURL that is descriptive. Everywhere you see Google asking you to be clear as possible, using good structured URL formats, etc, [...]
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.
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