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Post by account_disabled on Nov 25, 2023 10:10:25 GMT 5.5
obsolete. Bottom line: most SMBs don’t know what they are doing with search, are going nuts because some spammer or the guy down the street , want to spend more time with their kids and are ready to hire someone to make the problem go away. GLBC Will Institute An Agency of Record User There are all sorts of complicated reasons why Google Local Business Center does not allow for an “agency” user. Google wants to discourage mass spamming and perhaps they want to force more businesses to claim their own profile and actually engage with the Google. The best response I heard from Go ogle is that if businesses aren’t signing up on their own Asia Mobile Number List then that’s a problem with the product and they need to improve the product to get them to do so. Hopefully this is the year that Google admits that most businesses just won’t do it on their own. M&A Activity in Local Search Will Ta ke Off There’s a reason I have started including M&A services as part of my consulting work. The Yelp/Google deal, the ReachLocal IPO, the Twitter/Mixerlabs deal – these events create a growing sense that local search is starting to congeal – meaning that there are a set of services that are starting to show the ability to break away from the fragmented local search pack and have the potential to grab relatively large shares of their markets. Expect to see a domino effect with a number of large and.
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