Recent content by Dave Cosper

Via Blumenthal at the LSA 18 Conference in Chicago ... Google My Business Agency Dashboard & Upgrade to API Coming

By the way, if anyone has any ideas on how to make this tool any more useful, please let me know!

We recently began offering weekly Google Posts as part of our standard LOCAL service. From a SaaS retention strategy perspective, incorporating posts seems like a good move. Proof of work/performance is highly visible. If we don't have a specific offer/news/event to promote, we simply highlight...

Not sure if this makes it easier for anyone, but we created a JSON, Schema, and hCard generator for business location information and more: http://ezlocal.com/tools/schema-generator/

Google is using Single Platform (www.singleplatform.com) owned by Constant Contact to launch this.

How's this for a one-box result? https://www.google.com/search?q=DMK+Burger+Menu <meta property="og:type" content="article"><meta property="og:title" content="New Google Local One-Box in Search Results?"><meta property="og:description" content="Has anyone else been seeing these?"> <meta...

Nice category tool: https://moz.com/local/categories

Recently, I've noticed Bing Places has been pushing adherence to their Address Formatting Guidelines which rely on the USPS database. They do this with a pop-box stating the following: "We would like to reformat your address as shown below so that it conforms to our address formatting...

Re: How Do You Get Your Clients To Take Action? A tool we've incorporated that has greatly improved client engagement and follow-up action is screen sharing. We use join.me, it's free. We're able to walk clients through exactly what we need to accomplish (via approx 10 browser tabs), why we...

I've been tinkering with the Waze Map Editor and it appears they do not support business edits. According to their Guidelines, restaurants and businesses are not to be mapped and are handled by 3rd party providers such as Google Maps, Foursquare, Yelp and YP.

HoosierBuff- I'd like to expand on what Linda noted, and suggest the ideal way to manage multiple client listings involves both: 1) using the client's domain email as the owner, and 2) adding your own account, or bulk management account, as a page manager* *Settings > Manage listing access >...

Thanks for sharing, Linda. I'm sure there's a number of good ones I missed.

Linda, I think you're on to something! Thanks for the due diligence. I guess we'll find out soon enough.

Does anyone know what this is (re: purple dot)? http://s3.ezlocal.com/img/j/2013/9/bathroom%20remodeler%20-%20Google%20Maps%202013-09-24%2009-16-50.png Apparently, it looks like Google is experimenting with different colored dots for service-area businesses. Our team has spotted this a few...

To expand this a bit, what's the consensus on domain names which include city? (Not landing pages, but primary websites in the context of local search). For instance, if "businessname[dot]com" is not available, will "businessnameincity[dot]com" or "businessnameofcity[dot]com" be seen as spammy?