Google Places Showing Pictures in a Streamlined Way

Google announced on the Lat-Long Blog that images that have been added at the Places page by the owner or via Panoramio are now viewable in a streamline mode:

“Today, we’re offering you a better, more streamlined way to view these photos. With this new feature, you can easily flip through a whole collection of photos and find the sites on the web that have relevant pictures of a given place. Photos that have been uploaded by our Panoramio or Google Places users will appear in high-resolution as an overlay when users click on them. For photos from other sources, you can easily click on a specific photo to see more and visit the site it comes from.”

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Google Introduces Place Search

Google announced the introduction of “Place Search”, a new feature that will help users to find information related to local business.

Whenever there is a search related to location, Google will show these blended results, combination of organic and local. In addition to that, Google also have added a link to the left side Menu called “Places”, so users can get only local results.

When entering a local query, Google will deliver results accompanied by a red pin and will contain information such as thumbnail, phone number, address, link to place page, and reviews page by Google users and reviews from around the web.

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What Is Google Boost?

Google Boost is a new online advertising product that Google is offering.

Google Boost allows business owners to create ads directly from their Google Places account. These ads will appear in the Sponsored Links area of Google.com and in the maps.google.com results page.

Google’s objective is to make it easier for local business owners by offering an automated solution to place the ads. The only requisite is to have a Google Places account with your business claimed.

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Using Local Search Optimization

There is no clear answer when it comes to getting an answer to getting a lot of exposure to your business. Many locals will be looking for a particular service, as well as people that are looking to visit a particular city it is because of this that the benefits of local search optimization is able to be experienced on a grand scale.

This sounds like it is a lot more complicated than it really is, the truth of the matter is that the process, is actually a decent one to do for a business and one that can deliver powerful results. The secret is to know what to do and how to do it in order to get the most effective results from the effort. While the big search engines will be scanning your site name, the little fish will be doing so as well.

LSO involves the tweaking of a business to the point that it is able to withstand the influx of hits that the business will hit when a person commits a search to find the services that they need. The key to being successful is to make sure that you are in what is referred to as the seven pack.

While this has a funny name, this is in fact quite serious in the fact that this is the number of results that many people are interested in when it comes to getting the biggest amount of results back. It has been shown that the number of sites that a person will look at for the services that they need is seven.

If you are falling out of this magic number, then you are likely never going to be seen by the rest of the world. The lower that you head down, then the less your chances are. This is why it is so important to make sure that you are included in the seven pack for search results.

Getting into this list is real important in the fact that this allows a person to get their name out and if the little guy is able to successfully get the job done, then they are able to compete with the big dogs. This is an important aspect that needs to be kept in mind when it comes to local searches as well as large scale ones.

There are a few other tricks that can be used, but in the end the best advice that you are able to take is that of make sure that your site is compliant with the search criteria that many people will be using in order to get the best possible results for their search.

Local search optimization is not a difficult thing to understand, it just simply requires the business to make sure that they are able to take their business to the next level. In the end it all comes down to doing the right things that will get customers to see your site when they do a local search.

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