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How to Get Fake Reviews

by Scott | Sep 14, 2011 | Google, Local - Places - Maps

You MUST know that Google can instantly tell whether a certain Google user who just left a review is a “real” user or not, right? Google has access to everything a user does from their web browsing history to their Gmail habits, and they have for years....

Google Boost Is Now AdWords Express

by Scott | Jul 25, 2011 | Google, Local - Places - Maps

It looks like Google Boost has undergone a name change to AdWords Express, but it appears everything else has remained the same. (update 7/26 – Google just announced the change) This morning while logging in to a client’s Google Places account, instead of...

Google Loves a Good Scrape

by Scott | Jul 22, 2011 | Google

If you look at the Wikipedia definition of a scraper website, it says “A scraper site is a spam website that copies all of its content from other websites”. Well Google has a new project, that in my opinion, is basically just a well done Google scraper....

Google Has Feet on the Street

by Scott | Jan 26, 2011 | Google, Local - Places - Maps

I got a phone call today, that began “I’m with Google…” and of course I was highly skeptical. I take marketing calls for several clients, and this is the standard opening line for multiple unscrupulous SEO companies. After just a minute, I...

Threatdown | Removal from Google Index

by Scott | Jan 12, 2011 | Google

This morning I got an e-mail regarding a domain from Google Webmaster Tools, pointing out that “…some of your pages were using techniques that are outside our quality guidelines”. Wow! What the…? It went on to say that “pages from...

Google Hotpot – Not So Hot?

by Scott | Dec 6, 2010 | General interest, Google, Local - Places - Maps, SEO

I just tried to leave a review at Google, while I was logged in, and instead of being given the old review screen, I was asked to set up a new profile. Here, it’s easier to show you… (*update four months later the name “Hotpot has finally been...