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			<title><![CDATA[Bing Launches New "Places for Business" Dashboard. Can you say Copy Cat?]]></title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:58:52 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>---Quote (Originally by freerunr)--- 
In addition, they informed me  that they are taking into consideration  feedback from customers.  You better...</description>
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				Originally Posted by <strong>freerunr</strong>
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			<div class="message">In addition, they informed me  that they are taking into consideration  feedback from customers.  You better believe I informed them that this  is a very unfortunate inconvenience  for businesses that change names  frequently (such as law firms).  So for  those who would like to see a  change to this policy, I recommend  providing feedback to Bing via the  following email: <a href="mailto:placesfeedback@microsoft.com">placesfeedback@microsoft.com</a>.  (Bing Support gave permission for me to share this email address in this venue).</div>
			
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</div>Thank you for this. I've just sent an inquiry asking why there appears to be no option for listing business outside the US.</div>

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			<dc:creator>djbaxter</dc:creator>
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			<title>Trends Shaping Local Search in 2013 - Free Webinar by comScore, Localeze, 15Miles</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 16:15:27 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Just got an email with the replay of the webinar in case you missed it. 
 
Trends Shaping Local Search in 2013...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Just got an email with the replay of the webinar in case you missed it.<br />
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<a href="http://neustar.wistia.com/medias/ezj1ookp28?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonu67Jde%2FhmjTEU5z17OUsW6%2B3h4kz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMScpiMq%2BNFAAgAZVnyRQFFOWAb5RB6PxTCA%3D%3D" target="_blank">Trends Shaping Local Search in 2013</a></div>

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			<dc:creator>Linda Buquet</dc:creator>
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			<title>Penguin effect on Local? A quick story.</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 14:03:28 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>If your back links are shallow....then YEP, it can cause the drop.  You need to have more of a mixture.  If possible try back links with images, your...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>If your back links are shallow....then YEP, it can cause the drop.  You need to have more of a mixture.  If possible try back links with images, your company name and so on.  Once you have more of a back link base then add in a few keyword back links.</div>

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			<dc:creator>Marie Ysais</dc:creator>
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			<title>New Blended Results?</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 18:09:24 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Smoking mirrors...lol Sorry if this is redundant but can you provide me with a way to better track success or at least point me in the direction of...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Smoking mirrors...lol Sorry if this is redundant but can you provide me with a way to better track success or at least point me in the direction of trying segment &quot;Places&quot; traffic? I feel like I'm working completely blind at this local with nothing to show for it other then rankings.</div>

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			<title>Bing Local In UK, Canada, India and Germany</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 17:59:34 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[LOL, Nick, I'm not sure you'll be thanking me so much when you try to use it! :P]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>LOL, Nick, I'm not sure you'll be thanking me so much when you try to use it! :P</div>

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			<dc:creator>Jo Shaer</dc:creator>
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			<title>Do You Use GeoTagged Images for your Local Listing?</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 15:36:11 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>By way of resurrecting this conversation, my teammate Alex discovered that images we had geotagged then uploaded to Google+/Places were stripped of...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>By way of resurrecting this conversation, my teammate Alex discovered that images we had geotagged then uploaded to Google+/Places were stripped of the geo information.  Obviously we can use the new option in Plus to have the images geotagged (<a href="!3848!http://localsearchforum.catalystemarketing.com/google-business-pages/3848-new-google-update-geotagging-photos.html" target="_blank">http://localsearchforum.catalystemar...ng-photos.html</a>), but we were curious if anyone else was experiencing this.  The tool we used to check was <a href="http://regex.info/exif.cgi" target="_blank">Jeffrey's Exif viewer</a>.  Obviously, if geotagged information is removed from an image upon uploading it, there is no reason to continue the practice, but rather use the option Linda wrote about back in March.<br />
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Bing also seems to strip geo-data from images.<br />
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Thoughts?</div>

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			<dc:creator>freerunr</dc:creator>
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			<title>Google Local Pages not updating</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 18:35:29 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>---Quote (Originally by RushLocal)--- 
Thanks to both of you!  I will try that, and let you know how it goes. 
 
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			<div class="message">Thanks to both of you!  I will try that, and let you know how it goes.<br />
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</div>Please do :D</div>

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			<dc:creator>Colan Nielsen</dc:creator>
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			<title>What gets more clicks?</title>
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			<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 13:08:15 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Does anyone know of statistics showing what gets more clicks on the first page? 
 
Google Ads? Google+ Local Listings? Organic?</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Does anyone know of statistics showing what gets more clicks on the first page?<br />
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Google Ads? Google+ Local Listings? Organic?</div>

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			<dc:creator>Mike Pedersen</dc:creator>
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			<title>SLC | SEM - Questions for Mike Ramsey on Local Search or G+?</title>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 19:17:14 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>I will be at SLC|SEM (http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6433006295) this Wednesday, May 15th 2013. If anyone would like me to ask him questions, please...</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>I will be at <a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6433006295" target="_blank">SLC|SEM</a> this Wednesday, May 15th 2013. If anyone would like me to ask him questions, please let me know on <a href="https://plus.google.com/108809548039016487530/posts" target="_blank">Google+</a>, here, or at <a href="http://placesoptimizeprime.blogspot.com/2013/05/slc-sem-mike-ramsey-guest-speaker-what.html" target="_blank">my blog</a>. I will be monitoring all 3 :D</div>

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			<dc:creator>Optimize Prime</dc:creator>
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			<title>Score a Quadruple Local SEO Win - Reviews, Citations, More Appointments + Backlinks</title>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 20:48:46 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Looks interesting, I will be curious to see how things look when they finally launch.</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Looks interesting, I will be curious to see how things look when they finally launch.</div>

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			<dc:creator>Daniel C Berman</dc:creator>
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			<title>How to list on Quickr.org?</title>
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			<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 18:52:08 GMT</pubDate>
			<description><![CDATA[Wow...that site sucks. 
 
It seems to scrape Yelp.  There doesn't appear to be a way to submit directly, but my money says if you've been listed on...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Wow...that site sucks.<br />
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It seems to scrape Yelp.  There doesn't appear to <i>be </i>a way to submit directly, but my money says if you've been listed on Yelp for long enough, you'll get a citation on Quickr.</div>

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			<dc:creator>Phil Rozek</dc:creator>
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			<title>Local SEO Call Tracking - Huge BS Alert</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 20:49:18 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>---Quote (Originally by Matt Justice)--- 
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			<div class="message">Welp, it would probably be best not to lay this out in full detail to someone who sells info products ya know.<br />
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Nothing revolutionary... call tracking numbers on pumper sites, profile pages, lead gen sites, etc... anything creative that is acceptable to qualified prospects.<br />
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Then you're not building citations OR links to client sites.  Tough to do for places though: no way around gaming the system on that front, which always ends badly and is a waste of time nowadays.<br />
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My apologies Phil. I just clicked on your sig... I think I confused your brand name with a Clickbank or Wafo info product.<br />
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Nice site, very informative.<br />
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</div>Gotcha.  No worries.  I was just about to say “Hey, I don’t sell infoproducts!” :)</div>

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			<dc:creator>Phil Rozek</dc:creator>
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			<title>Local Search Ranking Factors for Facebook Graph Search</title>
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			<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 18:16:56 GMT</pubDate>
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Although, the G+ storm is on the horizon.  Linda you are the SEO Wizard. Toto and I loved the good old days back...</description>
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			<div class="message">Although, the G+ storm is on the horizon.  Linda you are the <acronym title="Search Engine Optimization">SEO</acronym> Wizard. Toto and I loved the good old days back in Kansas when <u>old school</u> <acronym title="Search Engine Optimization">SEO</acronym> worked really well. (Links, content, tags = results)  Do you have a balloon ready to take us back?:)</div>
			
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</div>LOL Brian, I ain't no wizard and I only WISH I had a balloon that could take us back to the good 'ole days. <br />
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I remember the days when <acronym title="Search Engine Optimization">SEO</acronym> was easy. Alta Vista where are you???</div>

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			<dc:creator>Linda Buquet</dc:creator>
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			<title>New Local Search Marketplace Launched</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 21:56:24 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>Nice! This will be useful to a lot of people here. Thanks Linda</description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Nice! This will be useful to a lot of people here. Thanks Linda</div>

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			<dc:creator>Optimize Prime</dc:creator>
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			<title>Local SEO Rock Stars Google+ Hangout</title>
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			<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 16:24:01 GMT</pubDate>
			<description>LOL Drew!</description>
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			<dc:creator>Linda Buquet</dc:creator>
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