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Google Places is out. Google+ Local is in. Customer reviews, experiences, photos, and more about your dealership previously found in Google Places can now be found within Google+.   By integrating this function into Google+ consumers have all the functionality of Google Places but now have the additional capability to easily share locations and accompanying photos [...]

Google launched Google+ a little less than a year ago in an attempt to successfully enter the social media arena.  While Google+ still has a long way to go to compete in terms of subscriber numbers with Facebook (approximately 100 million active Google+ users vs. one billion for Facebook ), Google has made a lot [...]

Did you miss the announcement about Google’s latest algorithm updates, dubbed Penguin? If you did, your website’s search ranking might have changed – for better or for worse – because of it. About Google Penguin On April 24, 2012, Google announced the first iteration of Penguin or its “web spam algorithm update.” To me, it [...]

We’re seeing constant evolution in the search space and one of the most significant to date is Apple’s Siri. As this application has gained popularity, people have been asking me “How can I work with Siri?”  “How will Siri affect our search traffic?” What can we do to get optimized for Siri?”  Apple describes Siri [...]

Google has started to list Google+ Pages in the search results.  This was announced yesterday on sproutinsights -  http://sproutsocial.com/insights/2011/12/google-plus-pages-search/   As of right now, the Google+ page results appear to only be showing for a limited number of brand (business names) searches. One of the automotive searches that we’ve seen result in a Google+ page in [...]