Since the release of Google’s new Place Page format there have been reports of various bugs, community edits gone wild, and black hat tactics.  We wanted to take a moment to compile this information into one place. 1)      Businesses are reported closed (by robots, competitors, etc.), even though they are not.  Although the option to

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

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

Google just announced that they’ve released Google Wallet. This means they’ve developed software for your Android phone that allows you to throw that real wallet of yours in the trash since you can now store your credit cards and personal identification cards electronically within your phone. Isn’t this exciting news? Yeah, we didn’t think so

If you’ve been keeping up with Google’s changes to their Places interface, you would have noticed that some listings were noted with “Reported to Be Closed” or “This place is Permanently Closed.” This is due in part to user’s being able to suggest edits to listings in Google’s Map Maker, in which Google moderators review