Creating your own local business website is never an easy task, especially when the guidelines change regularly. As always online, the only thing you can guarantee is change! In November, Google made an unprecedented move and published the Search Quality Rater Guidelines. Previously, we’d relied on an official 2013 condensed version or leaked copies of […]
How To Change Your Email Display Name In Gmail [Video]
The Joys Of Ageing Google Accounts… It wasn’t that long ago, in the time of Google Places when you would set up a Google account to claim your Place and suddenly have a GMail account. The email display name would be the unfortunate person nominated to ignore, sorry keep an eye on the account. For […]
Google’s Mobile Friendly Update – Do You Really Need A New Website?
Unless your have your eyes and ears closed online recently, you’ve no doubt heard about Google’s planned mobile friendly algorithm update due 21st April 2015. If you’re really unfortunate like some small business owners I’ve spoken to recently, you’ve also been bombarded with emails and calls telling you your website is not mobile friendly. Of […]
Your Google Business Listing: The Importance of Consistency
What is a Google Business Listing? It’s funny isn’t it? I ramble on about speaking the same language as your potential customers but when it comes to Google Local, the Big G really doesn’t make things easy! Let me explain… Earlier in the week I had a call from a lady who wanted to set […]
Quality Rater Guide Leaked: What Businesses Need To Know
Creating a local business website that Google and your users love is not always a straight-forward task, especially if you are building your own! Even gorgeously designed websites can overlook the basics. Your website is just the start of the plethora of signals that Google looks at when deciding if your local website is worthy […]
Google My Business – Goodbye Google Places
Hello Google My Business Google announced yesterday the global rollout of Google My Business. The official UK announcement came this morning over on the Google UK for Business Page. Google My Business should be hitting the dashboard in 236 regions and 65 languages as we speak. If you don’t have it right now, it won’t […]
Google Places (+Local) Edit Info Warnings [Video]
Update Google Places Listing Or Lose It Back in February, Google sent emails to businesses telling them to update their Google Places listing or risk losing it. It turned out that this purge of local listings was aimed at Australian listings only. Post by My Local Business Online. True to their word, Google started removing […]