Google+ Local

Google recently switched over 80 million business listings from Google Places to Google+ Local. It’s an integration of Google maps, Google Places, Google+ and Zagat reviews. The change is an effort to make Google maps a more social experience. Let’s face it: We often...

Maintaining a Proper Business Listing

Maintaining your online business listings is more important than ever. Search engines now localize most of their results based on the location of the user, and GPS-enabled mobile devices rely heavily on accurate business listings to aggregate helpful information....

How to Rank Well in Google Places

Everyone wants to know how they can get to the top of the rankings in Google Places (previously known as Google Maps). Here are the top 10 factors, according to e-commerce expert Nigel Burke, that determine your Google Places ranking. 10- Coupons Google always wants...

Google Love

If you want to get your site to the top of the organic listings and finally gain Google’s love and respect, it’s important that you understand something: It’s not easy. Google is no floozy. She rates websites with a complex algorithm, evaluating the relevance of each...

Is Your Web Site Your Worst Employee?

Too often web sites are low on the priority list, if they make the list at all. It’s easy to treat web updates as “nice to have,” or push managing the site to the end of the day, and then to the next day. Before long, the site is outdated, has wrong information and...