{"id":21,"date":"2011-01-12T14:50:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T14:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/12\/google-changes-good-for-local-seo\/"},"modified":"2011-01-12T14:50:58","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T14:50:58","slug":"google-changes-good-for-local-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/12\/google-changes-good-for-local-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"Google changes good for Local SEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In October (around the 16th) Google made some big changes to search engine results.  <\/p>\n<p>In a nut shell they no longer serve up the local box, but instead have combined the Google places accounts with the organic results, with a heavy weight on the &#8220;local&#8221; address where they see a local intent in the search term.<\/p>\n<p>There is a lot of information on blogs and search engine sites about thie, but it just comes down to a local SEO company now must work on both the places optimazation and the organic (on site) work. We have always done both!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s never been more important for a local business to be on the first page on search engines.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tweetthis\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><p> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Google+changes+good+for+Local+SEO+http%3A%2F%2Fsalesjumpstart.net%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D21\" title=\"Post to Twitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/en\/twitter\/tt-twitter.png\" alt=\"Post to Twitter\" \/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Google+changes+good+for+Local+SEO+http%3A%2F%2Fsalesjumpstart.net%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D21\" title=\"Post to Twitter\">Tweet This Post<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In October (around the 16th) Google made some big changes to search engine results. In a nut shell they no longer serve up the local box, but instead have combined the Google places accounts with the organic results, with a heavy weight on the &#8220;local&#8221; address where they see a local intent in the search &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/12\/google-changes-good-for-local-seo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google changes good for Local SEO<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,13],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-local-seo","tag-seo-google-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salesjumpstart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}