Recent content by Bobbie

Don't you think it's more about unique IPs? Google doesn't know the content of the video except for the description and title, so they aren't punishing the embed code. Seems if you had unique IPs, as various site would, posting the embed code/video... that would make Google happy.

I like it! That's going to be very helpful to the business owners.

Appreciate the heads-up Linda! I shared your G+ post too. I'm jazzed that Jade says businesses can "encourage" their customers to do reviews. Way better than Yelp!

This is SO welcomed! Thank you!!!

Hey Foxxr, we're neighbors in Santa Cruz County. We should meet up sometime and talk Local smack! With regard to this question... outsourcing business to various other businesses to do the actual work wouldn't lend itself to being able to claim those locations too. He shouldn't do that, it...

Some feedback: I was going to give a go to the Leaflet Maps Maker. I installed it, but the plugin uses a lot of memory resources. I'm not a big fan of allocating more resources to any plugin. So, I had to delete it because it threw a fatal error if I didn't give it more memory. It looks like a...

I'm seeing a benefit depending on the quality of the backlink.

Yes Nic, if you get rid of the old one you will loose those reviews. You are in a pickle. When you go to view their G+ Local listing, right below their profile photo is a link that says "Edit business details" and click that. It pops a window that's actually part of Maps, not G+. It's going to...

Nic, for every Google review... in the top right corner is a little grey flag. If you think a review is not real, then click that flag and say so. My experience is that Google is not doing anything with that info now, but it's not to say they won't come back to it in the future. In fact, I'm...

We would need more info on how she goes about getting the reviews currently, and by that I mean... is she having the customers complete them all from the same IP address? Something she's doing is triggering the filter, so you have to figure that part out and come up with a better strategy for...

The images are all back now! Wild!

Right, the Places listing in the search results. The profile pics are missing on everyone I'm searching on at the moment.

Yes Linda, it is in relation to that client, but what I'm seeing is that every local places listing is missing the profile pic right now. I'm using Google Adwords Diagnosis and Preview Tool to view the results, but you should be able to do a search and get the same places results. The natural...

Anyone else seeing Google Places profile images gone? Last night images that were not there before were showing and today, they are all missing. Big question... will Google remove images from Places listings or is this temporary? Thoughts? My testing was done Sept. 31 Noon PST

Linda, I'm watching this effect on lawyers as well. My client hasn't been hit at all, but his smarmy competitors have had reviews dropping off. My guess is that G is cleaning up fake email accounts used for fake reviews as well. And of course, the fake reviews are all 5 stars. What I wish we...