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It’s no secret that I don’t like Google’s “local carousel.” It’s ugly, inconvenient, and counterintuitive. Much ink has been spilled on the carousel. Many excellent points have been made. We local-search geeks (not to mention business … [Continue reading] about 10 Observations on Google’s Local Carousel
It’s not too hard to find categories on Yelp to list your business under. But it’s much easier to miss some and lose out on easy visibility - both in and out of Yelp - simply because you didn’t find the best categories to describe your … [Continue reading] about Yelp Business Categories List
Look at any business’s Google local listing. Notice anything...different? That’s right. Google has returned to showing businesses’ average review ratings on a 5-star scale. Didn’t happen a moment too soon. When Google Places became … [Continue reading] about 5-Star Review Ratings Return to Google+ Local Pages
I just saw something weird in the search results: Weird, huh? I’ve never seen authorship photos appear next to any search results for Google’s pages. I’m even more stumped why the authorship photo is of a guy who seems not to be affiliated … [Continue reading] about Authorship Photo Next to Google’s Own Search Results: Dogfooding or Bug?
Why should “best of the year” roundups only come out once 12 months have passed? Why are they all in December - and none in July? And why are they always so retrospective? “OK, here’s the stuff that mattered in case you were backpacking through … [Continue reading] about 10 Best Local Search Posts: January – June 2013