Google’s New Local Search Features Are Finally Here via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Last night at about 9:30 pm ET Google had a widespread outage with Google Search, the issue lingered through the night but restoration efforts seemed to mitigate some of the connectivity issues many have experienced. But this seemed to result in a cascade of other issues with Google Search around search quality in general. The Google Search issues. It seems that the outage, although the most noticeable issue, is not the only issue. I’ve seen issues with the overall search results impacting search quality. These issues […]

I had a financial accounting professor back in college who refused to give an “A” on an exam, even if you got all the answers right if the way you got to the answer did not align with her methodology.  For her, it was less about right and wrong. It was more about how you came to the answers.  The same rule applies to your enterprise SEO strategy.  Most C-level executives find sitting through an enterprise SEO strategy presentation comparable to being on hold with an […]

Google has updated its Google Maps contributor guidelines to disallow “discouraging or prohibiting negative reviews, or selectively soliciting positive reviews from customers.”