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On April 4th<\/sup> 2012, leaders of Advice Interactive Group<\/strong> joined the main Google Places Team<\/strong>, at a Google Hangout streamed LIVE from Google headquarters. Joining us from Google were Joel Headley<\/a>\u00a0and Vanessa Scheider<\/a> via real time live video discussion.<\/p>\nThe discussion allowed us to ask Google direct questions about Google, Google Places, and the Google Places search strategy that was very informative. Being able to join these types of sessions keeps us at Advice<\/a> ahead of the game and you ahead of the competition.<\/p>\n Even though there were dozens of lessons to be learned, some \u201cInsider Information\u201d we took away from this Hangout is as follows:<\/p>\n Here is an example of our Advice Interactive Google+ Page<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Search engines<\/strong> are all about connecting their user to the most relevant search results. As the Google Places algorithm evolves, it seems as though search engines are shifting to rely more on \u201csocial signals\u201d rather than \u201cbacklinking signals.\u201d Recently Google de-indexed 100,000,000 million private blog networks that were known for poor content and were part of a paid linking \u201cscheme.\u201d The point is social aspects help build quality Places rankings.<\/p>\n We recently posted a blog on how Google+ Page posts are showing ranking on Page 1<\/a>. If you do not already have an optimized Google+ for Business Page<\/strong>, you need one now<\/em><\/strong>. Here is a link to create your own Google+ Business Page<\/a> or we can do it for you.<\/p>\n We know that Google is trying to tie in all their products into 1 hub and we firmly believe that in order to truly capture the \u201cnew\u201d type of local rankings, each business needs to have a Google+ Profile Page and a Google+ Business Page. The profile page is for the owner and +Business Page is for the business brand.<\/p>\n Also, Google suggested the types of images you upload to your Google Places page be actual pictures of your business location, inside and out. \u00a0Even though it does not seem to have any ranking reward, it was mentioned on the Google Hangout by Google representatives. If your Places page ever passes through the filter and draws a flag, when a Google rep does the actual \u201cspot check\u201d and sees your actual business photos, you are more than likely going to pass the test and will not risk having your listing removed. It was also suggested you have actual business photos posted to one of their photo tagging sites, like Panoramio, as this reinforces the importance of “social signals.”<\/p>\n We at Advice Interactive<\/strong> believe in going the extra mile \u2013 especially when the internal product is part of the bigger picture. Everyone knows Google has the lion’s share of searches, and if they give us \u201csignals\u201d on how to prove your relevancy and legitimacy in a user search, we should comply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Insider Track Direct From Google Hangout On April 4th 2012, leaders of Advice Interactive Group joined the main Google Places […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-seo","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/al.rocksdmdev.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/al.rocksdmdev.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/al.rocksdmdev.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/al.rocksdmdev.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/al.rocksdmdev.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/al.rocksdmdev.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/al.rocksdmdev.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/al.rocksdmdev.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/al.rocksdmdev.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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