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Google Local Search at Your Gas Station
Google Maps is coming soon to a gas station near you. Stop by for gas, get directions from a Google kiosk for free. Surprisingly, Google isn’t making money on this; at least not yet. But you can obtain coupons from local merchants. I would anticipate that Google has plans for making money on this venture down the road. What should you do about this? Make certain your Google local listing is accurate, especially your location on the map. (We had to adjust ours by about 20 miles because of a two year old zip code change that Google didn’t seem to know about.) Personally I still prefer stopping to ask a kind human.
Geographic Targeting In Google – Exactly How Does That Impact Me?
Many have been reluctant to use the Google geographic targeting. After all, who wants to limit the people that could potentially view your site. This post on Google Groups will hopefully shed some insight into how this works, especially as Google responds to some of the questions.
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New geographic targeting feature, the Salzburg problem – Google webmaster tools | Google Groups
5 Things Yahoo! Can Do That Google Can’t?
Here’s an excellent post that let’s us in on some search coolness on Yahoo!. Examples include specifying the order of search words in queries, searching only on a certain domain and link data you cannot get from Google. Now read the comments and learn how you can do some of these on Google.
The Five Things That Yahoo! Search Can Do But Not Google | India Inc | Digital Inspiration
MSN Webmaster Portal Coming Soon?
MSN announced August 22nd that they would be releasing a beta of their answer to Google Webmaster Central and Yahoo! Site Explorer. It’s late fall now and as promised, it appears that the beta will be rolling out slowly. Crossing our fingers here that we are included. If you are interested, click the link below to sign up. Remember that beta means not everything works and you are on your own if something goes amuck. On the other hand, you will have a voice in making the tool better.
Live Search : Our New Webmaster Portal and an Invitation to the Private Beta
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