http://www.buzzmaven.com/2011/07/thirdpartyreviews-googleplaces.html The Search Marketing Consultancy of Scott Clark Wed, 08 May 2013 18:49:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.buzzmaven.com/2011/07/thirdpartyreviews-googleplaces.html/comment-page-1#comment-1885 Frank Goad Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:12:33 +0000 http://www.buzzmaven.com/?p=4667#comment-1885 Given Google’s secrecy about its algorithms, and the advances in indexing, they can deny they use the data but who could not think that they are using everything they can find for rankings? It’s a bit amazing how companies are rushing to social media and forgetting about basic search. A balanced approach is always the best policy. By the same token, a year ago everyone was talking about branding; now social media is the darling. – Frank Goad, “FrankyGee3″

]]> http://www.buzzmaven.com/2011/07/thirdpartyreviews-googleplaces.html/comment-page-1#comment-1884 Frank Goad Wed, 14 Sep 2011 15:11:24 +0000 http://www.buzzmaven.com/?p=4667#comment-1884 Given Google’s secrecy about its algorithms, and the advances in indexing, they can deny they use the data but who could not think that they are using everything they can find for rankings? It’s a bit amazing how companies are rushing to social media and forgetting about basic search. A balanced approach is always the best policy. By the same token, a year ago everyone was talking about branding; now social media is the darling.

]]> http://www.buzzmaven.com/2011/07/thirdpartyreviews-googleplaces.html/comment-page-1#comment-1843 seo expert Fri, 05 Aug 2011 12:01:50 +0000 http://www.buzzmaven.com/?p=4667#comment-1843 Yes, I feel Google has done right to give more local SEO more authenticity as many people started to buy paid reviews from third party websites. Moreover, I feel that people should understand Local SEO is not just reviews, you need to build citations too.

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