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Google Hotpot, woah, local SEO on the grow.

by orvn
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I just noticed Google Hotpot today, it came out about a week ago.

This is making local reviews so intuitive.

Hotpot coupled with the new places interface means that the local SEO game is changing rapidly.

A whole bunch of peer reviews from different IP addresses seem to really give a result in Google places a lot of credit.

I would suspect that using the same accounts to continuously review the same places would be detrimental, even if using something like the TOR network to rotate IP's. This is purely speculative.

This seems like a quick and easy way to boost your local ranking, if you're the kind of SEO that provides services to (mostly) local businesses, like me.

Anyone else got any tips or opinions based on these new and modified tools?



Oh, and if anyone could answer this question, I'd be in their debt:
How many ratings does it take for your places' rating to appear in search results?

I THINK it's ten.. but I'm not sure.
#google #grow #hotpot #local #local seo #places #seo #woah
  • Profile picture of the author orvn
    Turns out it's five.
    Five reviews gets your search results pretty little stars.

    That's your fun fact of the day.
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    I can't believe this interests no one.
    Do you guys just spend all your time on adsense or something? wtf.
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      Actually, Orvn, it's very interesting. People have erred in thinking that
      local/maps is somehow traditional SEO. It's not.

      It's all done on location, relevancy, and ....gasp....Ratings!

      Anytime someone asks about local, I tell them RATINGS!!!

      Don't mess up the application with wrong or misleading info either.

      Yes, we do spend all of our time on adsense.

      Paul
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      If you were disappointed in your results today, lower your standards tomorrow.

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      • Profile picture of the author orvn
        Originally Posted by paulgl View Post

        ...Yes, we do spend all of our time on adsense...
        Oh..
        Well, at least this explains why none of you ever come to my parties...


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