Google+ Local Reveals Google’s Plan For Zagat

Google+ Local Reveals Google’s Plan For Zagat Makes business listings more social

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Moving Google Places content into Google+ Local

Moving Google Places content into Google+ Local Continue reading

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Google+ Local scores Zagat

Google+ Local scores Zagat

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Google and Your Business forum wrapup – June 1, 2012

Google and Your Business forum wrapup – June 1, 2012

Learn about Google+ Local and what it means for your business in this week’s wrapup of the Google and Your Business forum (http://goo.gl/kMu6R). Continue reading

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Google Places; it’s moved into Google+ and is now Google+ Local

      Google Places; it’s moved into Google+

          and is now Google+ Local

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There’s a new look and feel for Google Places; it’s moved into Google+ and is now Google+ Local. This brings some exciting new changes, so this Hangout features Dasha and Jade, who walk us through Google+ Local, talk about what’s coming next, and answer questions.

Here’s how the video breaks down:
0:00 – Intro
2:00 – Google+ Local Walk-through (consumer side)
5:05 – Google+ Local Walk-through (business owner side)
14:45 – A merged (socially enabled) Local page
17:00 – Q&A

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Google Search Insights

Google Search Insights

Here is one handy site for Google search. Makes local search easy, categories a breeze, seasons, and other key search functions. Be sure to bookmark this one and Google+ too!

http://www.google.com/insights/search/

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Google’s Search Plus Your World

Google’s search results are undergoing their most radical transformation ever, as a new “Search Plus Your World” format begins rolling out today. It finds both content that’s been shared with you privately along with matches from the public web, all mixed into a single set of listings.search-your-world-google Continue reading

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Google 40 changes for February

Search quality highlights: 40 changes for February

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This month we have many improvements to celebrate. With 40 changes reported, that marks a new record for our monthly series on search quality. Most of the updates rolled out earlier this month, and a handful are actually rolling out today and tomorrow. We continue to improve many of our systems, including related searches, sitelinks, autocomplete, UI elements, indexing, synonyms, SafeSearch and more. Each individual change is subtle and important, and over time they add up to a radically improved search engine.  Continue reading

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Google Confirms Panda 3.3 Update

Google Confirms Panda 3.3 Update

Google has confirmed a new Panda update at the same time that it’s announcing 40 search updates that happened in February (or are in progress right now).

It would be all but impossible to fully sum up the full slate of changes here, but there are a few that seem especially noteworthy and will no doubt produce a lot of speculation among search marketers. Here’s a look at the ones that stand out to me: Continue reading

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Google Search Relevance Symbols

Google Search Relevance Symbols

The Basic search help article covers all the most common issues, but sometimes you need a little bit more power. This document will highlight the more advanced features of Google Web Search. Have in mind though that even very advanced searchers, such as the members of the search group at Google, use these features less than 5% of the time. Basic simple search is often enough. As always, we use square brackets [ ] to denote queries, so [ to be or not to be ] is an example of a query; [ to be ] or [ not to be ] are two examples of queries. Continue reading

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