You think it’s Saturday. Put that picnic basket down. Take off those skis. An update to the Google Places Quality Guidelines regarding the much-publicized ‘hide address’ function has happened again. If you were confused by the previous language in the controversial guideline, check out the edit and see if this seems clearer to you now […]

Hope you will check out my SEOmoz blog post Why You May Need To Hide Your Places Address ASAP. Local SEOs will enjoy the big discussion going on there, and Google, will perhaps take note of the fact that people are not responding with much happiness to this change of policy. Please, stop by!

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Andrew Shotland had just posted a solution to a mystery that has been circulating through the Local SEO industry every since his Google Places listing was obliterated after he had a phone conversation with a Google Rep. Apparently, he had violated a guideline I’ve never heard about, and that he’d never heard about and that […]

The Local SEO and Local Business Owner community owes a vote of thanks to Mike Blumenthal for his swift work in saving the Archives Of The Old Google Places Help Forum from the burn pile. Google’s decision to delete the library of information present in the old forum as they move over to a new […]