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What To Do If Your Google Places Rankings Drop ?

Admin — Sun, 29 May 2011 03:48:25 +0000

So you wake up and happen to take a look at your Google Places Rankings and your Jaw Drops !

You’re website is no longer on Page 1 of Google Maps anymore.

Not to worry, there’s a few things you could do.

Checklist For Google Places Rankings Drop:

Has there been any New Ranking Factors? Changes to Google’s Algorithm
Is your Google Local Listing Optimized
Is your Landing Page Optimized Properly
Any Alerts or red Flags in your Places Listing
Have your Competitors hired an Internet Marketing Firm to Get Top Rankings, pushing your listing down
Is it another bug from Big G

Now that you’ve checked your checklist fix any issues that you find. If you need help with Google Places Optimization feel free to connect with us.

Google says China blocking its email services

Admin — Sun, 29 May 2011 03:46:51 +0000

BEIJING – Google said Monday the Chinese government is interfering with its email services in China, making it difficult for users to gain access to its Gmail program, amid an intensified Internet crackdown following widespread unrest in the Middle East.

Google Inc. said its engineers have determined there are no technical problems with the email service or its main website.

“There is no technical issue on our side; we have checked extensively. This is a government blockage carefully designed to look like the problem is with Gmail,” the company said in a brief statement.

China has some of the world’s strictest Internet controls and blocks many popular social media sites, including YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. The government has intensified those efforts after pro-democracy protest erupted across the Middle East in January.

Around that time, anonymous calls for protesters to gather for a “Jasmine Revolution” in China triggered a crackdown by Chinese authorities, who stepped up Web censorship and deployed huge numbers of police to planned protest sites. No protests happened.

A Google spokesperson said users in China, the world’s most populous Internet market, have reported having intermittent problems with the service since the end of January.

Japan quake loaded stress on fault closer to Tokyo

remy — Sat, 28 May 2011 00:17:09 +0000

JAKARTA, Indonesia – The recent monster quake that hit northeastern Japan altered the earth’s surface, geologists say, loading stress onto a different segment of the fault line much closer to Tokyo.

Experts are quick to point out that this doesn’t mean a powerful earthquake is necessarily about to strike the Japanese capital. Even if it did, the structure of the tectonic plates and fault lines around the city makes it unlikely that Tokyo would be hit by a quake anywhere near the intensity of the 9.0-magnitude one that struck March 11, said Roger Musson of the British Geological Survey

But, given the vast population — Tokyo and its surroundings are home to 39 million people — any strong temblor could be devastating.

“Even if you’ve got, let’s say, a 7.5, that would be serious,” the seismologist said.

Japan is located on the Ring of Fire, an arc of volcanos and fault lines spanning the Pacific Basin, and is regularly hit by earthquakes.