I promised an update on the post I wrote on January 21, 2011 regarding reporting a closed business to Google Places via their report a problem link. Approximately 1 month later (Feb 19 to be exact) I received the following response from Google via email: Thanks again for sharing your local expertise with other Google […]

As a Local SEO, I have historically supported Google’s guidelines forbidding the use of P.O. Boxes as business addresses. It’s too easy to manipulate the concept of geographic location if the unscrupulous practitioner can buy a P.O. Box in every major U.S. city he wants to spam target. But today I read something in the […]