Happy Holidays! - Interesting Reading Material
I hope your holidays are going well! I was doing my nightly reading and came across the following article:
Google Building Their Own Groupon Killer? | Search Engine Journal
This brief article touches on how Google is hiring reps across the States in order to get biz owner's signed up for their local stuff: Tags, etc.
This is interesting because MANY of those SEO-mills that our clients have had terrible experiences with in the past, well they have been contacting businesses over the past few years stating that they are actually calling on behalf of Google in an attempt to build instant credibility/authority, close the deal, etc.....
So now here the real Google comes along and MANY biz owners are simply not responding to them/ignoring them.....due to every SEO company and their mother claiming they're "with Google" the past few years. Kind of funny actually
It appears Google may be cooking up their own LOCAL DEALS site in conjunction with their new "HotPot" thing. Personally, I'd like to see all of the insanity that we call "Local/Places" cleaned up and fully-structured, fleshed-out etc before they start releasing all of this new local stuff. It is kind of hard to build upon on an unstable, unreliable, easily-abused foundation in my opinion.
What do you guys think about all of this stuff?
- Jim
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