Google: Place Pages
How Medical Practices & Practitioners Should Set Up Google My Business
It's common for multiple medical practitioners to work at a single location, so columnist Will Scott advises how to set up Google My Business so...
Google Places Bulk Management Tool Integrates New Google+ Feature
Google announced new updates to its Google Places bulk location management tool this week, including a new Google+ social feature. From Googler...
How To Get A Medical Marijuana Dispensary Into Google Places
I was stoked when Chris Silver Smith turned us all on to the potential issues with marijuana and local search last month. As an early dabbler...
Google Places Adds New Features To Its Bulk Location Management Tool
Googler Jade Wang announced yesterday Google Places is rolling out new features to its bulk location management tool. According to the...
As Google Upgrades Google Maps Business Listings, Conflicts Happen Including Duplicate Listing Issues
Google has been automatically upgrading Google Place listings from the old system to the new Google Places dashboard. With this upgrade, there...
Time For SMBs To Tackle – Or Be Tackled By – Online Reviews
So much of search focuses on being found. But being found doesn’t do much good unless you’re also chosen. The only thing worse than not...
Google Places Quality Guidelines Updated
Google quietly announced within the Google Help forums that they have made a clarification update to their Place quality guidelines to help...
Google Requiring Some Business To Reverify Their Listings Or Be Removed From Google Maps
Some business owners are receiving emails from Google requiring them to reverify their listings within three-weeks or their listings will be...
5 Tips To Kill The Competition In Local Search
If your business has a local presence — anywhere — you must take advantage of Google+ Local. Creating and optimizing Google+ Local...
Google Places International Adds Over 1,000 New Categories For Business Listings
Google’s Business community manager, Jade Wang, announced in a Google discussion forum thread that they have vastly increased the number...
Google Places Listings Get Integrated Into Android’s Phone App — And They’re Terrible
A big change in Android 4.4 is: those using Google’s new mobile operating system, nicknamed “KitKat,” can search for...
Google Intros Android App For Managing Google Places Listings
Local business owners have a new tool for managing their Google Places For Business Listing. Mike Blumenthal got the scoop on the new Android...
You’re Dead… If You Don’t Integrate Social Media & PR Into Your Local SEO Strategy
The peppered moth (Biston betularia), once white with black spots, faced a strange challenge in London during the Industrial Revolution....
5 Ways To Rank Outside Of Your Physical Location In Google Places
One of the more desperate requests I get from clients interested in Local Search is wanting to rank well in Google for local queries when they...
Google Places For Business Gets Its Own iPhone App For Managing Listings [Update: Google Removed App]
Local business owners have a new tool for managing their Google Places For Business listing: a dedicated app that works on the iPhone and iPod...
10 Things SEOs & SMBs Should Know About New Google Places Dashboard
Recently, Google announced some significant changes to their Google Places dashboard. The wires have been humming ever since, and the reaction...
Google Adds Publisher Opt-Out Tool For Shopping, Flights, Hotels & Local Search
Don’t want your content to be included in many of Google’s vertical search services, such as Google Shopping or Google+ Local?...
Google Starts Shutting Down Its City Pages, Shifts To Google+ Local
Google is in the process of shutting down its collection of city pages — a change that follows the shift from Google Places to Google+...
WSJ: Google Prepares “Business Builder” For Small Business Marketers
The Wall Street Journal reported this weekend that Google is planning to combine a number of its products (internally developed and acquired)...
Google Places Launches New Bulk Listing Management Tool
Google Places has announced changes and new features to its bulk listing management tool that it hopes will make it easier for business owners...
