Google Places isn’t a person. Why would it have a “face”? First of all, who’s in the picture? It's not a yearbook photo of any of the moderators at the Google Places Help Forum. It’s not a goofy doppelganger of Carter Maslan, the former … [Continue reading] about The Face of Google Places
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Best Local Search Tools – 2012
It’s possible to get a business visible in Google Places and other local search engines without using any tools…but why would you want to? Sure, you can drive a nail with a brick (or that poundcake your in-laws sent for Christmas), but it’s much … [Continue reading] about Best Local Search Tools – 2012
13 Best-Practices for Picking Google Places Business Categories
The “business categories” you choose for your Google Places page matter—big-time. Your choices can help get your business visible to all the local customers you’re trying to reach, or they can cause Google to pluck your business off the map (and not … [Continue reading] about 13 Best-Practices for Picking Google Places Business Categories
My Caveman Painting of a Local Search Engine
Fine, I guess our cavemen ancestors didn’t have search engines to help them find the closest woolly mammoth watering hole or the finest maker of custom wooden clubs this side of Bedrock. I’m afraid I don’t have any caveman artifacts, per se. But … [Continue reading] about My Caveman Painting of a Local Search Engine
5 Google Places Tests I’d Love to See
I discover a lot about Google Places by wrestling with it all day, every day. But I’m also constantly scratching my head at questions—things that I just started wondering about based on observations, or that people have asked me. Some of these … [Continue reading] about 5 Google Places Tests I’d Love to See