Telecoms Favor Internet Over Paper White Pages
When was the last time you turned to a paper telephone directory when looking for a local business? This is the exact question major telecoms are posing to regulators so they may discontinue printing white pages, literally by the millions … Continue reading
How to Change your URL in WordPress
Background:
We recently redesigned our corporate websites here at localsplash.com and over at relevantads.com. The problem we encountered was that we had tested our new designs at a different URL then at localsplash.com. Therefore we needed to change the URL from test.localsplash -> localsplash.com.
After quite a long time of searching for a WORKING example we finally were able to piece the process together from various blogs. Hopefully this will help other people who might have been as stumped as we were with this process. Continue reading
Google Places Allows More Intelligence in Listing Removal
In the passage of time, there may be various reasons to remove your involvement with a business that you’ve previously claimed. It may have unfortunately gone out of business, been handed over to another person to manager, or otherwise. In … Continue reading
Google Unsure of Map Marker Location Accuracy
Last Week, while doing some regular updates to some Google Places listings, we stumbled upon a message from Google that notified us that the address did not have a clear map marker location and asked us to please correct it … Continue reading
Soccer Fever on Google Maps
Get a Special Badge to make your Google Places Listing stand out. Today, while submitting a test Google Places listing I noticed a new feature just below the categories section. For a limited time only, if you are showing the … Continue reading
Mobile Search Starts Now
By Jeremy Auestad, Marketing Manager Five years ago, most business owners did not understand the importance of being found online. The vast majority thought that the Yellow Pages were the best way to advertise their business on a local level … Continue reading
Business Reviews Improve Your Online Marketing Results
By Kim Chhang, Marketing Over the years, online marketing has evolved and now offers many options for generating publicity for local businesses. The online image or “reputation” of a business is increasingly influenced by real customers via online reviews and … Continue reading
Google Begins Nationwide Rollout of Tags and Adds New Features
Google has just announced at the LatLong Blog, the beginning of a nationwide rollout of Tags, their paid, local listing enhancement. The feature, first tested in early February and rolled out to 11 cities last month, will first be available … Continue reading
Google hired 300 workers to focus on Maps bugs
David Rodecker, founder and CTO at LocalSplash reported last month that Google had hired 300 workers to focus on fixing Google Maps bugs. We decided to test this new reporting system and have been very impressed with Google’s response. … Continue reading
