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Press enter to see results or esc to cancel. Toggle navigation 716-222-0222 Local SEO Local Mobile Local Search Loci – Important Articles for the Year Yahoo Local Google/GMB Goog-411 Google Adwords Express (Tags, Boost) Google Customer Service Google Helpouts Google Hotpot Google Local Spam Google MapMaker Google Offers (Coupons) Google Places (Maps & Local) Google Quality Guidelines Google/Local Categories Facebook Apple Other Topics Rubber Chicken Award What’s New & Important Reviews Microformats in Local Full Blog Archive Contact Sign Up For My Newsletter 716-222-0222 Understanding Google My Business & Local Search Home in Google+ Local February 7, 2021 Amazon “Misappropriates” News Cycle (Oh.. and $61.7 Mil of Tips) Last Tuesday, February 2nd, was a big news day for Amazon. Everyone read the headlines that Bezos was moving on up to Chairman of the Board in the 3rd quarter. The stock market responded positively and the news of the change and the story gained widespread traction with Google showing 44,500,000 articles on the topic: … Read more Google/Local Read More in Google+ Local February 7, 2021 Amazon “Misappropriates” News Cycle (Oh.. and $61.7 Mil of Tips) Last Tuesday, February 2nd, was a big news day for Amazon. Everyone read the headlines that Bezos was moving on up to Chairman of the Board in the 3rd quarter. The stock market responded positively and the news of the change and the story gained widespread traction with Google showing 44,500,000 articles on the topic: … Read more in Google+ Local June 21, 2020 Google Testing (or Rolling out?) New 3-Pack Carousel Downdated 6/22: This was reported by Barry Schwartz as first spotted in November by Velentin Pletzer and seen off and on in June by tl;dr Marketing. The current widespread visibility implies that this might be the rollout and not a test. Over the weekend, my mobile devices are all seeing a new 3-pack with a carousel display … Read more Local Search Read More in Google Local Spam , Google+ Local , Local Search April 12, 2017 Mike B Around the Local Web In case you didn’t get enough of me this week here on my blog, you can overindulge in local until you puke at these other fine publications: Ductape Marketing: How to Get Found Using Ever-Changing Local SEO Tactics I have a fun conversation about Local with one of my favorite marketers, John Jantsch. We talk … Read more in Local Mobile September 14, 2016 Apple iMessage for iOS10 Rolls Out Conversational Commerce with Transactional Local Apps Apple started shipping iOS10 with a new version of iMessage yesterday to the installed base of iPhone users. Welcome to the new era of conversation commerce for local. And with the new version of iMessage comes an App store and the ability for third parties to integrate directly into the messaging flow. When initially announced … Read more in Google+ Local , Local Mobile , Local Search , Local Social September 3, 2016 Local U Advanced – End of Super Early Bird Pricing & Speaker Interview with Joy Hawkins The LocalU Advanced Super Early Bird Pricing ($599 or $549 for 3 or more) goes up $100 at the end of day 9/8/2016. So order today. To give you a sense of the kind of speakers and topics we will be dealing with we are interviewing some of the speakers. In this second interview of … Read more Facebook Places Read More in Facebook Places , Google+ Local February 15, 2016 Google MyBusiness Now Surfacing Web Verify Option Read more in Apple Maps & Siri , Facebook Places , Google Places (Maps & Local) , Local Mobile , Local Social , Loci - Important Articles for the Year January 23, 2013 Loci 2012- Justin Sanger Read more in Facebook Places January 16, 2013 Facebook Graph Search and Local From Across the Web- Let the Fight Begin Read more in Facebook Places , Local Search December 12, 2012 The Disconnect Between What SMBs Use Facebook For and What Consumers Use it For Read more Apple Maps / Siri Read More in Apple Maps & Siri September 19, 2015 An Updated List of Apple Business Listing Data Providers Interested in who provides business listing data to Apple Maps? With rollout of iOS 9 Apple is becoming ever more important in local search. This fact struck home early this year when a major theme park contacted me and said that people were piling up at their service entrance instead of their front gate. Turned … Read more Technical Read More in Google+ Local , Reviews September 11, 2016 Thoughts on the Recent Rollout of Aggregate Reviews, Snippets & Critic Reviews in Google SERPS Since early August with the roll out of Critic Reviews and Top 10 Lists and with the recent rollout of Reviews from the web and a significant review snippet display upgrade, Google has been on a rich snippet tear. Here are some my thoughts, big and small, about these changes. Do you see these changes … Read more in Google+ Local , Reviews September 10, 2016 Google Updates Mobile Rich Snippet Display with Pricing Information In addition to the release of Reviews from the web and new review rich snippet guidelines (again), Google has simultaneously updated the display of mobile organic review rich snippets with more space and additional pricing details. H/T to Aaron Weiche, the CMO at GetFivestars. Although Jared McKiernan of ParkWhiz asks some interesting questions: Read more in Google+ Local , Microformats in Local , Reviews August 4, 2014 A Plug-in for Adding Google Reviews to Your WordPress Blog Update: I just heard from David Deering about the plug-in’s use of Schema. Firstly the schema is not done correctly. More importantly however (which I suspected but didn’t investigate as I thought the schema was reserved for the paid version… mea culpa) marking up reviews and ratings that were created on another site actually goes against … Read more Local U Read More in Local Search , Local Social , LocalU April 23, 2014 Local U Advanced – Seattle – June 10th Local U Advanced is returning to Seattle on June 10th with an all new curriculum for 2014. When asked what attendees liked best about our just completed Local U Advanced in Philadelphia here is what a few of them said: How intimate the group is and the ability to talk to the presenters before, during and after presentations. All … Read more in LocalU February 26, 2014 Local U Advanced – March 8th – King of Prussia, PA Update: 3/3/14: Only 11 seats left. There are only 9 days left until our next Local U Advanced, just outside of Philadelphia, at the DoubleTree by Hilton in King of Prussia, Pa. This year we have limited the total ticket sales (including sponsor seating) to just 65 folks. As of yesterday afternoon there were only … Read more Blumenthal The Blumethal Blog is a resource for local search topics to help SEOs and business owners understand how to rank better in Google's local results. The blog covers a wide range of topics, written by , to improve online presence and to understand current news and trends in Google's local ranking system. Weekly Newsletter & Podcast: Sign Up For My Newsletter! 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