Join Our Google Plus Local SEO Community

Monday, 25 February 2013 19:40 Written by gregorysmith 0 Comments

I have established a social platform on Google+, using the Google Plus Communities. Google plus is a very active community, and is currently #2 in the whole world. This group is going to be a really great learning experience, for those of you who’d like to learn about Google+ local or local SEO or are just someone who has a question, that needs an answer.

Join Our Google Plus Local Community Today

To join this awesome Google+ local SEO community, visit the following link.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/108872072649387120197?cfem=1

Hope to see you there!

How Important Is Google+ For My Local Business

Thursday, 21 February 2013 19:20 Written by gregorysmith 0 Comments

What used to be called Google Places, is now called Google Plus Local. If you’re a legitimate business, then making sure you have a Google Plus business page setup, is vital to the overall success of your business. Google+ is quickly becoming the most used social media platform, for businesses all over the world.

Given that Google is generating (by my estimate) about 80% of local leads in the US and more in Europe it is essential that the listing is correct and has granular category detail about what your business does.

How Important Is Google+ For My Local Business

I just finished reading a really interesting post, the post was actually an interview of Mike from Blumenthal. Mike is said to be one of the most reputable local search marketers in the world of local search, and from what I’ve seen, I’m not going to argue that. You can judge for yourself, by reading through the interview found on another blog. After reading through the interview, you should have a pretty good idea of how important Google+ is for your business.

I am a regular user of Google+ — I really enjoy using its platform, and I love all its features. I’m not a big fan of social media at all, but Google+ has changed that. Since I’ve been using Google Plus (First Month It Came Online) I’ve learned many ways to benefit from it, and would like to share some of my secret Google Plus marketing strategies with my readers. Before I delve into the meat and nuts of this post, keep in mind that there’s a to of awesome advise located in the mentioned link, above.

What I Have Learned From My Experiences On Google Plus

Shortcut To Uploading Pics To Google Maps Business Listing

Saturday, 16 February 2013 15:25 Written by gregorysmith 0 Comments

I’m not sure I’ll ever understand why Google endorses a product — providing the users with a particular way to use the platform, and the way that Google teaches it’s users to use their platform is a very tedious — time consuming process. Google steadily barks loudly of how important quality is and Google’s Matt Cutts is regularly talking upon the topic of “why building a more user friendly website” will not only perform better, not only be easier to crawl, but also rank higher in SERP.

Shortcut To Uploading Pics To Google Maps Business Listing

Then a Google employee publicly states that there’s a Shortcut To Uploading Pics To Google Maps Business Listing. If that’s the case, then why in the name of God didn’t Google give us this information to begin with? It’s not a shetchy way of doing things. I’ve tried the method, and like I said — why didn’t Google simply start off providing this information to their users. By the way, that isn’t a question.

Google employee (Jade Wang) popped her head up in Google product forums, providing a new tip (Shortcut To Uploading Pics To Google Maps Business Listing) about how to radically expidite your image uploading process, on your Google Plus Business Maps Listing.

Does This Make Since To You?

As per the way Google provided us with how to do this task: you basically upload your images through your Google Plus or by using your Google Places account. As we all know, That process can take a month. Normally we would have to wait for about a month for

What Are Acceptable Categories on Google Plus Local Page

Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:39 Written by gregorysmith 0 Comments

It’s been found that some very legitimate businesses have been penalized on Google Plus Local Business Pages due to their categories not being up to par. What I mean by up to par is — Google want’s categories to be a certain way, but Google hasn’t made this known in their guidelines. There have been some pretty fair complaints made by local business owners, and I would just like to point this out to those of you who aren’t yet aware, before you make the same mistake and to provide you with some quality information, before you start providing Google Plus local services, for your customers.

Acceptable Categories on the New Google+Page – Google Groups

click here to see the original copy

Nick – You are quoting the Places category. Again, Places is a small portion of your listing. Once on the map, the Maps rules take over.

@MarkTraphagen Has Eric Scmidt Really Just Confirmed Author Rank?

Thursday, 14 February 2013 17:20 Written by gregorysmith 1 Comment

For a very long time now people have had questions relating to social media having benefits on search engine ranking factors. I’ve written post in the past pertaining to some case studies that showed Twitter (Tweets) to add benefits to ones ranking and I have seen others speculate the same. Some presume that Facebook “likes” add value to ones Facebook fan page, then again I suppose it would, otherwise why would there be a such a thing as a “like”. Either way these aren’t something I would have given enough attention to. And now Google+ ? Wait a minute…

Google AuthorRank for Businesses (Rel=publisher) #pubcon from Ann Smarty

@MarkTraphagen Has Eric Scmidt Really Just Confirmed Author Rank?

It’s true — Google Plus has tons of benefits on your search ranking factors. We will discuss some of those factors a little further down the post — for now let’s just take a look at what Google Authorship really is. I’m sure that by now you’ve read a lot of articles or, at least seen a lot of articles about Google Authorship. There has been a little bit too much confusion when it comes to Rel=”Author” and Rel=”Publisher”. I’d be surprised if the mass majority of you are even aware of how or why you should use these, and how very important they’re now becoming.

I’ve had a few people ask me to help them to get their picture to show up next to their Google listing, like they’ve seen some of the others doing. I’m personally surprised at how long this has been available, for the majority to just now be figuring out what it even is.

Google Employees have what they refer to as a privacy act. They’re not suppose to publicly discuss algorithm factors, unless otherwise given permission. So, it’s fiesable to say that it’s been a while since a Google employee has made a public statement, concerning

Google Plus Local MapMaker Loophole

Tuesday, 12 February 2013 20:20 Written by gregorysmith 0 Comments

I was reading a post today on a local SEO website, that was discussing the Google Plus MapMaker and how shitty it really is. Then I fell on top of a comment by Jeffery Manger .

“FYI the Mapmaker interface totally blows. What a confusing, ineffective, waste of my time. Maybe there is written instructions in a booklet somewhere on how to actually use this thing.”

Without a doubt, I agree with Jeffery. My first impression of the MapMaker was that I couldn’t believe that the team over at Google couldn’t do a better job than that on their MapMaker. What a shame! It’d take a complete blow Joe to figure out how to use the damn thing — what makes it a shame is that we regularly see Matt Cutts and all the other Googlers rampaging about how we need to focus on more quality and a more user friendly website. Google is regularly (daily) de-indexing websites and penalizing them either by Google penguins or Pandas or what ever.

There is a new, simplified MapMaker interface being rolled out in Canada that makes editing directly into MapMaker much easier.

After hearing about the “new”, more simplified MapMaker interface that rolled out in Canada — I couldn’t help but to rush over to see it, and give it a whirl. What a difference! To take a look at it for yourself — all you have to do is use Google+ and search for a

How Long Does It Take To Get Local SEO Ranking Results?

Monday, 11 February 2013 20:29 Written by gregorysmith 0 Comments

If I had to guess I’d say that 100% of you have asked yourself or someone else this question, at some point in the past. The question still remains — some speculate whether or not there’s actually an answer to such a question — pertaining to which keyword one would be focusing on.

How long will it take before I’ll see my ranking results?

All of my clients have asked this question. It never fails, and I don’t suspect it ever will. I’ve started giving all my clients the same answer, even though all my clients are very different, the fact shall remain; how long it will take to get YOU rankings — will determine many factors, though one of those will always conclude — Local SEO is a long term process, and doesn’t come overnight. Although this is the answer in which makes many potential customers turn their cheek from wanting to invest in SEO, it’s a fact. Whether or not you predict your business to be standing in several months from now, should also be something you should be concerned about. I’ve never really understood the fact that clients want results now — but not tomorrow. Sure Local SEO takes some time, and then again so does anything worth achieving.

How Long Does Local SEO Take

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