Lollipop Local

At today’s Google I/O here were the updates on Google+ which are going to start rolling out today. Every day, we connect with others with a smile or a laugh, but the meaning often gets lost. So the G+ project was designed to share the things you love with the people you love. To explore the stuff Read more [...]

The rankings for Google Places have been up and down like a yoyo over the last couple of weeks. Businesses everywhere are tearing their hair out at the sudden disappearance of a listing that had been on the front page for years. There seems to be no logic to the algorithm at the moment. Suddenly Read more [...]

As an interim measure to try to sort out some of the existing bugs and glitches during the transition from Google Places to Google Plus Local, a new Google Places for Business dashboard is being rolled out in the US for new users. Which means that this will soon be arriving in the UK too. According Read more [...]

At the weekend, Gmail rolled out some changes to their email offering designed to make things easier to use. New Compose feature on Gmail Instead of opening up a screen-wide place to compose your messages, it now opens a pop up window in the corner of your screen – not sure how that makes it easier Read more [...]

If you are a service based business where customers cannot just walk off the street into your office, then Google Places/Plus rules state that you should have your address hidden. But, over the last couple of days, the initial whimpers have grown into a torrent of anguish that hidden addresses are Read more [...]

After my presentation last week for Southend Women In Business, several asked me how they should go about creating a Google Plus account. Well, if you already have a gmail account, a YouTube account, a Google Places page or a Google Analytics account, the chances are that you already have an account, Read more [...]

Warning, current advice is not to do anything until Google Places has made the full transition from +Local to +Business Pages.  I have not verified this listing. I’m naturally a cautious person so I did not set up all my Google properties under one gmail address, despite being encouraged to do so, Read more [...]

Hello I am in the process of having a small website built by a friend, and I am about to set up a new business working as a beauty therapist. I have been told I need to have a Google plus business page – can you let me know how much you would charge to set one up for me? Or do you only do this Read more [...]

It was Sadie-Michaela of iLocalSearch/GoSoMoLo – check – who first put up the status update on Google Plus that she was being stalked by two pairs of boots as she moved around the internet. And then others started chiming in about the same problem. Items that they had searched and perused were suddenly Read more [...]

Further to Mike Blumenthal’s Google Local Train Wreck post and Andrew Shotland’s Google and Local SMB post, both talking about the difficulties Google seems to face in effectively serving the local business community, I give you the latest incarnation of the Google Places Plus Local name – Social Local Read more [...]