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Comment on Spice Up Local SEO with Pinterest – Backlinks, Citations and More by Roger

Roger — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 02:44:23 +0000

I’ve been reading so much about Pinterest lately… wondering if it will be the next “twitter”. Good call on mentioning Google may try to acquire pinterest. I wonder what pinterest’s intentions are (compete or allow itself to be acquired)… I’m curious about your comment “be sure to click it with Chrome so that …” Does clicking a link with the Chrome browser effect crawling/indexing of that link? do you have more information? Thank you!
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Comment on Google Places Algorithm Change – New Proximity Lockout Algo Can Cause Major Ranking Drop by Joseph

Joseph — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:57:18 +0000

I don’t think the proximity algo has been lifted in my area yet …
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Comment on Google Places Algorithm Change – New Proximity Lockout Algo Can Cause Major Ranking Drop by Linda Buquet

Linda Buquet — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:10:21 +0000

@webmaster said:

“google do not permit any website to rank at position 1-3 page one for keywords when same website ranks top or near top in google places. why? it’ll look biased, favouring that website.

but what if that website is just great at seo and marketing? answer: google don’t have an answer, they sandbox the website for keywords which also push it’s google places listing to the top. why? because google are pushing google places listings ahead of organic rank.”

There are 2 algos that show up for different keywords. With one algo you could rank page 1 in Places AND organic separately.

In the other algo your site and Place page merge together into a single listing.

@Laura, yes the prox lockout was dropped or at least the radius widened in lots of markets.

Comment on Spice Up Local SEO with Pinterest – Backlinks, Citations and More by Rob Metras

Rob Metras — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 16:01:50 +0000

Helpful post Linda. I like your scoop.it site and your Scout suggestion is working out just fine. I think I will oin the minority of males pinning):

Comment on Google Places Algorithm Change – New Proximity Lockout Algo Can Cause Major Ranking Drop by Laura Behney

Laura Behney — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:05:22 +0000

@webmaster
“google do not permit any website to rank at position 1-3 page one for keywords when same website ranks top or near top in google places. why? it’ll look biased, favouring that website.”

Ever since the prox lockout went away last week, our website, which has typically ranked ORGANICALLY very high (top 3), isn’t ranked at all, but our Places page is back to the number 1 spot (like it was pre-Panda 2 update).

Linda, are you seeing this change since last week anywhere else?

Comment on New Google Places Rank Tracking Comparison Reports Available – Places Scout by Dino Maiolo

Dino Maiolo — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:43:35 +0000

Yes, definitely diggin’ the new features. Thanks for encouraging Doug to make them. He’s got a wonderful product.

Comment on Google Places Algorithm Change – New Proximity Lockout Algo Can Cause Major Ranking Drop by webmaster

webmaster — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 12:39:48 +0000

hi,

we’ve been ranked organically at 1 or 2 google.com for rome tours since 2009.

google places listed us for the first time yesterday morning (#1 for rome tours when searched for organically). of course, rome tours is on that our google places profile as a keyword set.

guess what? now, when an organic search is made for rome tours, our homepage is not in the top 150. scandalous? scam? pending correction next re-rank? online bookings have crashed as a result.

google do not permit any website to rank at position 1-3 page one for keywords when same website ranks top or near top in google places. why? it’ll look biased, favouring that website.

but what if that website is just great at seo and marketing?
answer: google don’t have an answer, they sandbox the website for keywords which also push it’s google places listing to the top. why? because google are pushing google places listings ahead of organic rank.

solution? ERASE GOOGLE PLACES LISTING

Comment on New Google Places Rank Tracking Comparison Reports Available – Places Scout by Brenda

Brenda — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:14:20 +0000

That sounds great! I really want to see those new features in action.
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Comment on New Google Places Rank Tracking Comparison Reports Available – Places Scout by Linda Buquet

Linda Buquet — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 00:27:34 +0000

Great to hear Kim! Glad it’s helpful for you. Sure saves me a boatload of time!

Comment on New Google Places Rank Tracking Comparison Reports Available – Places Scout by Kim Welsh

Kim Welsh — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:15:14 +0000

I’ve been using Places Scout for a few weeks now and I have to say it’s definitely the tool I’ve been waiting for. It was great BEFORE the update. Now it’s a powerhouse!

Thanks Places Scout and thank you, too, Linda for recommending it.

Comment on Google Places and Local SEO Before and After Ranking Comparison Reports – Coming Soon! by Chris Gregory

Chris Gregory — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 17:11:47 +0000

Thanks Linda, I hadn’t had a chance to get to your other post yet. I’ll check it out.
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Comment on Google Places and Local SEO Before and After Ranking Comparison Reports – Coming Soon! by Linda Buquet

Linda Buquet — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 16:40:07 +0000

Hi Chris, your squeak was already heard and answered. See post above this one. Scout’s comparison feature is done and I think you’ll see it does most of what you want. (Also FYI right click to hide any columns you want)