Category Archives: Google Places Manchester

Google Bubble Ads Causing A Stir

New Google Bubble Ads

New Google Bubble Advertisements The new ads that began to appear in the business bubble info boxes a couple of weeks ago have caused a real stir. Many SEO professionals are claiming that in its goal to capitalise on every potential ad revenue stream Google has this time overstepped the mark. The ad bubbles look like this: where the bubble info for Manchester based SEO company I-COM shows an ad for a competing company. Does this mean that Google are [...]

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Local Search Domination

dominate your local market

Manchester Local Search Domination Following on from my Google Places Case Study I thought it would be useful to demonstrate how it is possible for a local business, selling a product or service, to grab a fair percentage of the Google search results. The case study showed how we set about gaining high rankings for a local tiler with particular emphasis on the areas of Manchester and Cheshire. The main keyword targeted was ‘Tiler Manchester’ and if you perform a [...]

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New Google Places Feedback Button

Google Places New Feedback Button

New Feedback Button On Google Places Preview Whilst writing the blog post this morning about the new updates to Google Places I noticed that a new Feedback button has appeared on the Places page previews that appear when you mouse over the double arrow (see below). The colour of this Feedback link is, as you can no doubt guess, grey which does make it rather difficult to spot. Clicking on the link takes you directly to the Places page for [...]

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Latest Changes To Google Places

Google Places New Marker Pin

New Google Places Layout And More You may have noticed that in the last few days there have been some changes made to the layout, design and features of Google Places.  The main changes are:

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Perfect Example Of Why It’s Important To Monitor Your Online Reputation

BBC News

Case For Online Reputation Management See this BBC news release which highlights the need for constantly monitoring your online reputation. This tells the story of a computer specialist in Bridgnorth who had a false review posted about him on his Google Places listing accusing him of being a thief and a paedophile It has taken the man 18 months to get it removed by Google during which time he estimates he has lost 80% of his local business. The moral [...]

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