October 30th, 2009

As many readers probably know, Telmetrics president Bill Dinan responded to my original Search Engine Land column about call-tracking last week.  Greg Sterling was kind enough to let me post a response to Bill’s response on his blog this week.

Please check it out & let me know your thoughts either in the comments area on Greg’s blog, or below.

4 Responses to “” Kyle Kazak says at
October 30th, 2009 at 9:16 am

Recently I have noticed that my client’s LBL have been getting merged with similar but separate listings. By adding a call tracking number to a listing that has numerous other citations from prominent directories seem to create a negative action.

When Google spiders these citations, the implication of them stating a different phone number than what you told Google is enormous. They devalue your submission in my opinion.

If you start a companies’ online presence with the tracking phone number, the other listings outside from the LBL will start indexing your tracking phone number as your main phone number. I have had great success with tracked number in local search but recently I have been receiving numerous complaints about incorrect merged accounts?

P.S.
Google updated page ranks last night!

Ned Cifric says at
November 1st, 2009 at 8:07 am

I can not believe that LBL is going through such dramatic changes. I had listing that were posted years ago and have been active until this recent change. There is no doubt in my mind that if you base your business model on LBL and for that matter Google, you will not be able to sleep at night. Some of my listing are totally gone of the Maps. This is the 5 day since Google LBL has gone haywire and I still have many listings missing.

Ned Cifric says at
November 1st, 2009 at 8:08 am

David Mihm do you have any suggestions?

PureSheer says at
November 20th, 2009 at 3:35 pm

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“No minute gone comes ever back again…take heed and see ye nothing do in vain”
–inscription near Liberty, Carnaby Street London, visited on 23/04/10

A surprising number of you have emailed or mentioned to me at conferences that you’ve been disappointed with my blogging schedule recently.  I’ve become involved in a number of projects that have required more time than I anticipated–not the least of which is GetListed.org’s Local University–the next one is in Minneapolis on May 13 (shameless plug: please encourage any small business owners you know in the Twin Cities to attend–they can use discount code ‘mihm2010?).

I’ve even had to suspend my Search Engine Land column, unfortunately, because I just feel I’ve been overextended.  I was sad to do that, because SEL has given me tremendous visibility beyond this tiny little corner of the blogosphere.  My editor, Elisabeth Osmeloski, has graciously offered to allow me to contribute guest posts going forward, however, which I plan to do on a more-or-less quarterly basis.

And, as many of you know, I’ve just returned from a three-week trip to the Netherlands, India, and the UK–a much-needed break after such a busy Spring.

After a Herculean effort churning through my feed reader over the weekend, as well as my Delicious account for the past few months, I thought I’d highlight what I found to be the most significant developments in Local during my vacation, and over the course of my time away from blogging. Andrew Shotland took the words right out of my mouth last night.

Google Local Business Center Places Rebrand

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