Google Local Buzz - Digest of the Most Important Local Search News

[Linda Buquet]

It’s getting so busy over here with multiple hot topics and major Google local updates coming in every day that it's easy to miss great content. So once more I'll attempt to put the most important recent posts in a digest so you guys don't miss anything critical.

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[Chris_Gregory]

Linda,

I want you to know how much I appreciate you curating this content. It's nice to have one place to go to and be up to date. This stuff changes so fast.

Thanks a million!

 

[Linda Buquet]

Thanks so much Chris!

Sometimes when I do these things and get no feedback I think no one is reading or cares, so I stop putting energy into it.

It helps me to know the effort is appreciated. I'll try to keep it up.

One of the reasons I'm doing this... The weekly newsletter is deigned to surface the latest content, but there is so much now that some of the most important posts get buried and don't show yet more recent, not as hot topics do.

So I'm going to try to do this every Wed AM so it lands toward top of newsletter like it did today. That say you can skim recent BUT if short on time, just go to the Buzz Digest for the most important stuff from that week.

 

[Colan Nielsen]

I really, really love this. Even for those of us who have already read those threads, it's great to have them all in one spot to scan over them.

Thank you!

 

[Linda Buquet]

Thanks Colan, coming from you, as someone who I know reads everything here and knows how to hunt stuff down, that's saying a lot.

So yes I'll try to do this every Wed AM so it's top of newsletter.