April 12, 2011 Comments Off
A client of ours, Townsville Florist, came to us again recently due to an issue with their Google Places rank dropping from rank A, to rank F) in Google Places. This may not seem like a huge slide in the overall scheme of things this represents a 40% dip in turnover which is huge – [...]
February 1, 2011 Comments Off
As most of you will know we are working with over 40 clients at the moment which makes us incredibly busy, so busy in fact that we only have two Google accounts across all those clients – it would be impossible to have a log in for each clients.
Anyhow, last week I went to update [...]
What is Google up to? Where are they heading with Google Places? My first thought is, “who knows”, because as much as I think I know about Google Places, I really know nothing – sounds very Socratic doesn’t it.
One thing I am certain of is that today Google Places has been experimenting heavily today with [...]
Using Additional Information In Google Places is something many of our clients do not use and is something vital to any good localised SEO campaign. That being said, I can understand to some degree why it is underused – it is just so confusing to some people with how it is formatted.
A good example of [...]
I typed the search term Toowoomba Building and Pest Inspections into Google just to see what sort of search results Google Places would provide when using an address that contains a letter – like 220B. I feel that Google gets a little lost when providing these sorts of results which is a little disappointing, especially [...]
In the beginning of 2008 all the major search engines, and that includes Google, began to show a totally different interface at the very top of their respective search results pages for keywords that are locally-targeted or even “key phrases” too – for example Townsville Florist. The new look of the Google search results show [...]