Google Recognizing Contact and Social Networking Information Explained
With Google introducing its Rich Snippet format last month giving convenient summary information about the search results at a glance supporting product reviews and people. I’m sure we have started noticing these changes in Google search engine result pages.
Google Maps Updated Quality Guidelines
Today Google rolled out some major changes in the quality guidelines of Google maps. Clearly business titles are the biggest area where people tend to stuff their keyword and try to outrank other competitors in onebox as well as in local search. Also creating muplitiple listing is a growing concern in Local Search Industry. I have mentioned about Local SEO Spam about few weeks earlier here in ThatsSEO. Today Google came out with a intereting list of revised quality guidelines.
Google not Good Enough in Controlling Local Map Spam
Google Map Spam? – What would give you a call about this? Google map is the single most powerful marketing tool for the small business owners and some companies are taking mislead and spamming all over Google Map. This act of black hat technique has been identified by many bloggers and blogged now and then from 2008 and Google claims that they take regular measures and such activities would be taken care of. But it is not the case. Are they good enough in controlling the Local Map Spam?
More than One Classic Sitelink in Single SERP
Recently Google started displaying classic sitelinks instead of traditional sitelines that appears to four lines in two columns. And to my surprise I have noticed more than one classic site links being displayed in a search engine result page. I provided a sample screenshot below.
