Archive for the ‘Local Search’ Category

I am sitting in Lakewood Colorado as I write this.  I’ve got a client here who is a real estate agent and so I googled Lakewood Realtor.  You’ll see in the image below that the results I got were for Lakewood Wa, Austraila!  Australia, what happened there?  Google should be using the searcher’s IP to help guide local results.

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What do you do when Google “Flags” your content in their Local Business Center?  Recently, I had the opportunity to find out first hand how to fix this. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday Google added a great feature to their Local Business Center listings.  It’s a dashboard for the business owner that provides some really valuable statistics.  Read the rest of this entry »

Starting last August Google began showing suggestions as you type letters into the search box on their home page.  Starting yesterday they took on a local flavor and the results Google suggests are now determined by where in the world you are.  For example Read the rest of this entry »

The view of Google’s local 10-pack for locksmiths nyc today is very different than it was last week here’s what it looks like today: Read the rest of this entry »

Someone please point John Stewart to Google’s map of what New York looks like with 171,000 locksmiths because I know he could have so much fun with it, and maybe that would embarrass them into cleaning up the problem.  In the meantime here’s the actual satellite image they have for New York City with their pushpins oozing across it like some orange virus from a horror movie. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s hard to say what thought process is going on in the mind of the person who registered SearchEngineOptimizationLocal.com on February 13th of this year, but they’re exposing more weaknesses in Google Local 10-pack results and giving some important lessons on local search ranking factors. Read the rest of this entry »