Local Biz Builders

Google Losing Reviews, Images and Videos

Scott Gallagher — Fri, 18 May 2012 20:28:16 GMT

We all know Google has been losing, hiding and moving customer reviews for almost 4 years now.

Google admitted to their problem in November 2010. So we're about 18 months into their confirmation and we are still dealing with problems.

Here is what Google is saying.

LMS created a Google Places Best Practices Guide here. Links to valuable resources such as reporting listing problems.

Mike Blumenthals created a nifty 4-part plan here.

Know the details for your customers.

LMS Industry Weekly Update -- May 16, 2012

Joey A — Thu, 17 May 2012 00:07:41 GMT

The Local Marketing Industry Weekly Update
May 16, 2012

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Presented By: Local Marketing Source LLC & Scott Gallagher

Question about websites

bprfoto — Wed, 16 May 2012 21:20:09 GMT

hi, all,

I haven't been around much lately, so I hoping I'm not out of line. I have two websites that I haven't done much with. I went and checked on them and to my surprise, they were doing pretty good for not having any TLC. My question is, one is doing much better the other. They could be combined, so I wondered if I should combine them or leave them as is.
www.bestofnys.com had 636 unique visitors in April. www.fingerlakesvacationguide.com had 199 unique visitors. Yeah, I know not great numbers but I'm thinking what would happen if I actually worked on them! lol.

I'm working on both now. Thanks in advance for any advice.

Brenda

LMS Industry Weekly Update -- Playlist

Joey A — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:50:10 GMT

*Please note that new episodes take a few hours to appear*

We are pleased to announce that our Industry Updates are now available through PodBean, a podcast website.
Here, in this sticky, you can view and hear ALL of our industry updates in one place.

Feel free to discuss the updates in the correct THREADS below. Cheers! ;D

Customer Service makes a big impact on YELP! Ratings

Joey A — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:38:42 GMT

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Yelp has long advised businesses to �focus on great customer service and the ratings and reviews will come�. Working with our Search & Data Mining team, we took a deep dive into the data to see how perceived �customer service� impacts review ratings, both good and bad.

Read the FULL ARTICLE on Yelp's Official Blog

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LMS Industry Weekly Update -- May 9, 2012

Joey A — Mon, 14 May 2012 05:57:13 GMT

The Local Marketing Industry Weekly Update
May 9, 2012

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Presented By: Local Marketing Source LLC & Scott Gallagher

Bing is Releasing a Facebook Freindly Format

Joe Bon — Thu, 10 May 2012 20:20:42 GMT

The second largest search engine, Bing, has announced that it will be releasing a new Facebook Friendly format for its search results.

This new format will divide the Search Engine Results Page (SERP) into three columns. The left column will display normal search results generated by the Bing's algorithm. The center column will display "decision results" such as movie times, traffic reports, and pictures of hotel rooms in the area.

The right sidebar column is a fundamentally new way at looking at SERP's. It displays results based on "recommendations" from Facebook friends. Microsoft and Facebook have a partnership agreement that gives Microsoft access to data from Facebook's over 900 million users. A search for the Bahamas might return results accompanied by a list of your friends who have been there, what airline they used to get there, and what hotel that stayed at during their vacation.

This new format could be the game changer Bing needs to take some market share away from Google, who currently has 66 percent. Google is currently taking heat for displaying results influence by Google+ rankings higher then other results. Twitter also discontinued its agreement to share its data with Google. One clear loser in this war for market share has been Yahoo.

I'm wondering what kind of effect these changes will have on the different SERP's. Bing has claimed that it use relevant data from all social media services with its results. Will social media begin to play a bigger role in Bing's SERP's? One thing is for sure, it will be interesting to see how this plays out.

Getting New Local SEO Clients

Scott Gallagher — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:25:09 GMT

This is an important and challenging step!

I have this document that we have created for different niches and set up an auto responder series using ZOHO with opt-in. For example, an attorney comes to our site, chooses their industry and would receive a document similar to the one attached.

This document helps generate the interest and request a first meeting.

Feel free to use this document. Download it here.

I also have a series of webinars coming up covering my challenge to acquire $10k in reoccurring revenue in 90 days. I'm covering....

-Sales Process
-Target Market Selection
-Potential Business Types
-Methods to Approach Leads
-Lead Sources
-Educating Prospects
-Providing the Assessment
-Research the prospect
-90 day $10k/mth recurring challenge

Here is an overview and note taking document to check over before you sign up.

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