by KMGuru | Jul 25, 2011 | Google Plus, SMO Social Marketing Optimization
Late last week, in a move that was apparently spurred by threats of an FTC investigation, Google removed third-party reviews and listings from their Places pages in the Local/Maps results. This change was intended to help thwart complaints by sources like Yelp,...
by KMGuru | Jul 22, 2011 | Google Plus
Local searchers and local businesses will see a fairly substantially different Place Page the next time they’re poking around Google Maps/Places. The company announced a new look Thursday and promises more changes to come. The new layout of Place Pages puts a heavy...
by KMGuru | Jul 19, 2011 | Google Plus, Mobile Apps, SMO Social Marketing Optimization
Google said on its Q2 earnings call last week that there were more than 10 million users of Google+ so far. It didn’t announce how many were using the site on mobile devices or how many had downloaded the well-received Android app. The iPhone app should prove popular...
by KMGuru | Jul 7, 2011 | Google Plus, KM Guru SEO WordPress Websites
As you may have heard, Google recently launched a new feature called Search by Image. While experimenting with the feature, I identified three scenarios where search by image has a distinct advantage over traditional approaches for finding link opportunities. First,...
by KMGuru | Jul 7, 2011 | Google Plus, SMO Social Marketing Optimization
Tonight Christian Oestlien, the Ads Leads for the Google+ Project, posted a message along with a brief YouTube video about future Google+ plans on his Google+ account. The video is just over a minute, but Christian covers a variety of topics. The most important of...
by KMGuru | Jul 6, 2011 | Facebook, Google Plus, SMO Social Marketing Optimization
Just over a week old, how’s Google+ doing? Comprehensive stats are hard to come by. But from our own experience, along with some other stats out there such as a new top Google+ accounts list, it seems to easily be eclipsing its Google Buzz predecessor. Google Buzz...
