Google Maps Local Panel Tests Highlight Icons
Sergey Alakov spotted yet another Google Local test, this one in the local knowledge panel for a business listing. The business panel shows…
Google Tests Removing Pricing From Hotel Listing Results
Google hotel listing results typically show you the price of the stay based on when you are going to be staying. But it seems Google is testing removing the pricing on their hotel listings.
Sergey Alakov spotted this and posted about it on Twitter……
Join Google’s John Mueller Live In A Webmaster Hangout Today In Mountain View
It is one thing to partake in the Google webmaster hangout office hours events over YouTube Live hangouts but it is another thing to do it sitting inches away from Google’s John Mueller…
Google Maps Ads Are Popping Up Now?
Joy Hawkins, one of the niche local SEOs in our field, posted on Twitter that she saw on Google Maps that Google automatically popped up an ad on the map for a local result…
Google Test Local Reviews By Traveler Type
This may be one of the largest Google local reviews tests I’ve seen from Google in a long long time. Of course, this was spotted by Sergey Alakov and not just posted on Twitter but also on his blog, which is rare for Sergey…
Google Tests 3 Ads In The Local Pack With A Carousel Interface
August 2016, Google introduced ads in the local pack. That was one single ad at the top of the local results when you do a search that has local intent…
Google Tests Reviews Tab On Local Knowledge Panel
Our friend Sergey Alakov spotted yet another Google local test, this one is Google testing a tab approach to showing reviews on local knowledge…
Google Hotel Booking Interface Testing Carousel Layout
Google loves carousels, they just really love them. Now they are testing the carousel user interface for the local listing user interface for hotel booking. Sergey Alakov, who else…
Google Adds More Granular Review Filtering In Local Listings
Sergey Alakov was again, the first, if not one of the first, to spot this local reviews change – where when you see a local pack in the Google results, you can now filter those listings by reviews in a more granular manner. So now you can filter by hal…
Google “View Rates” Call To Action Overlay For Hotel Listings Search Results
Sergey Alakov shared a couple of Google tests over the weekend…
What’s new with Earth? First impressions of the relaunched Google Earth
Google has just re-designed, revamped and re-launched its Earth product. What’s new, what’s improved, and how can marketers take advantage of the storytelling opportunities it presents?
Google My Business Adds Bulk Download Insights Analytics
Google Insights within Google My Business is the analytics tool that shows business owners how much action their Google Maps/Local listing is getting…
Google Local Search Ranking Factors From Moz
Moz released their local search ranking factors study results for 2017. They do these studies every two years by survey the smartest local SEOs out there. You can view the full results here if you have not seen them already…
Are you or your local search tools using UULE? Beware!
It was a pretty big deal to the world of local search when Google removed “Search Tools” from their search engine. It may seem like NBD, but everyone in local search knew that that was the best way to see what a local search looked like in a different location from your own. After that […]
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Google My Business Lets You Enter URL Attributes For Other Business Information
Google quietly added a feature to the Google My Business spreadsheet uploads to enter URL attributes. These URL attributes can be used to link to things like your restaurants menu or other business information that is useful to searchers…
Google Tests Showing Number Of Reviews Left By Reviewer
Google seems to be testing showing the number of reviews a reviewer has under his or her belt in the reviews snippet for local search results…
Google Tests Local Knowledge Panels Without Maps
Google is testing, yet another, Google local knowledge panel user interface. This one is where the local knowledge panel is not even showing the map in the box. Yes, Google is testing not showing a map for local results in the Google search results……
Google Local Results Showing Query Specific Data, Like Hours, Reviews, Phone & Address
If you search in Google for local businesses and get even more specific, such as ask for their reviews, phone number, address, hours of operation and so on, Google will now give you that information in the local box…
Google Local 3 Pack Removes City Names For Local Results
Sergey Alakov spotted another change to the Google local pack, this one is where Google is removing the city name from the local pack results when the results are nearby your…
Google Local Reviews With Guardian Top Ten Icon
Glass Digital shared a screen shot on Twitter of Google showing extra local review data from the popular UK paper, The Guardian. In fact…