Google has posted some official guidelines for listing your business in Google Maps. As more and more people refer to the Internet rather than the phonebook for looking up local businesses, business owners will want to pay close attention to the rules, so they are easily found on Google Maps. The new guidelines read as follows:
Verifying Google Maps Listing
So everyone and their mother is now giving out local SEO advice about getting listed in the local search engines/internet yellow pages. Recently articles were published on Entrepreneur.com and MSNBC which both of course suggested getting listed in these local directories including Google Maps. Sound advice indeed.
Listing Supporters = Selling PageRank?
Emad Fanous has a post on how the W3C, the internet standards consortium, is listing its top supporters on a page with a massive PageRank.
Collecting Past Due Accounts – Notice of Listing
The Notice of Listing law is aimed at regulating the actions of collection agencies and their operatives.
How To Verify And Monitor Your Search Engine Listing On Google.com?
Being listed in search engines and ranked high on searches is the overall goal a webmaster is trying to achieve when dealing with search engines.
CEO Arrested For Porn Listing He Knew Nothing About
The arrest of eBay subsidiary Baazee.com CEO Avnish Bajaj by Delhi, India police is being widely critisized in India and around the world.
eBay Acquires Listing Site for Rental Homes
eBay has agreed to acquire privately held Rent.com, an Internet listing website in the apartment and rental housing industry.
Searchable Enhanced Seller Listing
For a number of years, the “pay-per-click” search engine model has allowed participating organizations to pay for click-throughs to their websites. The higher the bid per click, the higher on the list a company’s description is displayed.
Impact on Conversions from Paid Search Listing
In search of the tools to make strategic decisions about paid search advertising, Atlas DMT, a digital marketing technology provider and an operating unit of aQuantive, released research demonstrating the rank of a paid search listing and its impact on conversions.
Search Engine Devoted to Listing Forums and News Services
At a Launch Event Hosted by the Local Chamber of Commerce on October 1st, a New Search Engine, That is Expected to be the ‘New Google’ From Upper Austria, Went Online.