Small Business Online Coach

Minor Google Places Bug

Matthew Hunt — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:02:20 +0000

Is anyone else noticing a Google Places hiccup with more reviews. I can’t seem to get any Google Places listing to go past page two of reviews and even on Page 2 of reviews it is ONLY listing 3 of the reviews. Not a huge problem, but a minor bug in Google Places. I’ve noticed [...]

Where Did All The Google Places Meta Descriptions Go…?

Matthew Hunt — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:43:44 +0000

Not sure yet if this is a bug or a Google Places update….? It’s 12:42 EST time on Feb 14, 2012 {…Oh, hey! Happy Valentines Day! } and I am not seeing any meta descriptions in the SERPs for any listings that are associated with Google Places on both ‘blended’ and ‘pure’ search results. Also, [...]

Link Prospector Tool Released Today -> Go Get It!

Matthew Hunt — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:18:43 +0000

Check out this amazing new link prospecting tool that launched today. It’s called the Link Prospector by Darren Shaw http://www.Whitespark.ca and Garrett French http://citationlabs.com. If you need to build links this will seriously save you some mega time in finding great opportunities for links. These two guys are two cutting edge link builder tool genius! [...]

Video Tips on How to Manage Poor Reviews on Google Places

Matthew Hunt — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:13:53 +0000

One my clients received a ‘poor’ review and this is a great video case study on how to manage poor reviews. Let me know your thoughts on how to handle poor reviews online? My top poor review management tips are: take responsibility try to make it right get more good reviews And to that damn [...]

Business Photo Program for Google Places

Matthew Hunt — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:10:03 +0000

The Business Photo Program for Google Places was launched in April of 2010, but seems to still be going and growing. It allows potential customers to take a 360-degree virtual tour of your business like the way you can in Google Street View. It’s so cool! The most important thing about this program is it [...]

Why It’s Essential to Login into Your Google Places Every Month and to Click ‘Edit’ Then ‘Submit’

Matthew Hunt — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:52:53 +0000

This really scared me reading this today on the Google Places forum. “Here’s the deal: Google Places allows multiple people to own a listing. So you may have claimed your account, but someone else may have claimed it before you and is still considered an “owner” of the listing. The last person to have updated [...]

Google Maps + Google Plus = Game

Matthew Hunt — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:10:38 +0000

Couple interesting Google Maps things I found this week. By now you must have heard that there is a Google Maps based game coming to Google+ next month. It’s an Android based game. There is not doubt in my mind games are BIG, even though I personally do not find myself playing them. Games are [...]

Ban Those Silly Phone Books

Matthew Hunt — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:24:58 +0000

Infographic by Ban the Phonebook In the United States, only 30% of the population uses the white pages phone books. So why do most of the U.S. states still require phone companies to deliver the thick books to every landline subscriber? I know this local SEO’er tosses his in the recycling bin every year. The [...]

Google Showing More Personal Search Results Now With “Search Plus”

Matthew Hunt — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 17:30:40 +0000

Personalized search is obviously important to Google. We are seeing more and more personalized results in Google search results and looks like Google wants to push the envelope even further with Search Plus. Not sure if this is a further step to compete with Facebook or not…? Danny Sullivan said in Search Engine Land: Perhaps [...]

Long Tail Search Engine Optimization

Matthew Hunt — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:30:38 +0000

Why Long Tail Search Engine Optimization is Essential to Small Business SEO Success When your small business decides to invest in search engine optimization services you may decide to target some highly competitive keywords, which in turn take months or even years to surface on the first page of the search engine’s pages. A great [...]