Wow the week has flown by! Since I am at my Accelerated Learning Coaching course tomorrow, here’s this weeks Google round up done the night before. Google Places – Why You Must Hide Your Business Address Not long after posting how to hide your business address in Google Places, it appears that Google have snuck […]
Google – A Weekend Round Up 17th March
I thought I would start a quick weekend round up of Google topics I find interesting and useful. Why Google? Simply because Google is ingrained in our very British lives – they provide over 90% of search results between google.co.uk and google.com. That’s not to say you should rely solely on Google! That would be […]
Google Places Listing Hijacked – Why You Need To Regularly Check Your Listing
A Google Places Listing is the easiest ways for a local business to appear at the top of search results. It’s a free service if you do it yourself, but it does need to be monitored. I talked about changes to Google Places in October. People with a Google account can make updates to your […]
Google Accounts Problem Solved – “This service is not available”
Google Accounts, “This service is not available” Solution Are you trying to set up your Google Places page and hitting the Google Accounts – this service is not available screen? You need to add services to your Google Account, the video explains how to do it. Transcript below. [trafficplayer_youtube_video width=”500″ height=”284″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/3LjfyOckSHA?modestbranding=1&autohide=1&controls=0&hd=0&rel=0″ ][/trafficplayer_youtube_video] Google Accounts […]
Social Search Is Here – Almost!
Google.com introduces social search This has been on the cards for a while and Google unvieled their social search on Tuesday, Search plus Your World. A bit of a mouthful to say the least! [trafficplayer_youtube_video width=”400″ height=”233″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/8Z9TTBxarbs?modestbranding=0&autohide=1&controls=0&hd=0&rel=0″ ][/trafficplayer_youtube_video] Here in the UK we have the benefit of watching the circus as social search makes […]
Google Local Listing Tips – What Are Citations?
Note that Google Places/+Local Pages now come under the umberella of Google My Business. Google My Business is a one stop way of creating your Google Plus Local Business Page, listing on Google Maps and access to small business Google tools. For simplicity, I’ll call it Google Local listings. I had a great Google Local […]