After much anticipation, Google + pages are finally available for businesses.  Creating and maintaining a page for your business allows you to share and promote your business and then measure the results through Google Analytics and Google AdWords. It’s easy to create a Google+ page.  Go to http://www.google.com/+/business/ and follow the instructions. You will have

Google is constantly analyzing how users interact with paid ads and making updates based on those observations.  One of those updates happened a few days ago when Google announced that for certain search terms they would start showing ads on the top and bottom of the page instead of in the side bar.  In the

Yesterday Google announced the latest upgrade to the functionality of the Google Place listings on the Google search engine results page.  Touted as a user experience enhancement, searchers can now view local business details directly on the search engine results page instead of toggling between Place pages.  This change is beneficial to business owners for

I came across this infographic today that  illustrates how searchers are using the internet to find local businesses.  I’ve included the whole thing but I’ve also pulled out some stats that I found particularly interesting. 74% of searchers are using Google to find a local business 14% of that 74%  use Google every day to

On Thursday Google announced that they will be automatically updating listings using a variety of sources to provide users with the most up-to-date business information available.  With this change, they will continue to send courtesy notification e-mails to let you know that your business listing may be affected.  The e-mail will be sent to the