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« on: January 06, 2010, 01:07:09 PM »

this is an odd one... maybe it's the bods over at WPW getting the wrong end of the stick, maybe it's yet another GG filter...

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/01/04/google-ditches-local-listings-for-seos-and-designers
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« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2010, 03:48:45 PM »
I don't understand why someone searching for 'web design london' isn't searching for a web designer in london and should therefore see local results...  what difference does the word 'in' make?  I'm struggling to see the logic too.
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« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2010, 05:13:40 PM »
WTF?  Huh?

Im struggling to see the logic in this completely! Maybe SEOs have had a spanking, but web designers?! Doesnt make any sense to me.
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« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2010, 11:42:00 PM »
Interesting news. When did they originally remove them?
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« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2010, 09:48:57 AM »
Quote from: BecomeKnown on January 06, 2010, 11:42:00 PM
Interesting news. When did they originally remove them?

the WPW article is from the 4th, and it says 'as 2009 came to a close...'

my feeling is this is nothing more than a glitch... an anomolanonomy... if GG were trying to slap the seo and web design bunch in the face (with or without a soggy wet fish), surely the maps wouldn't show regardless of putting the word 'in' in the search.
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« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2010, 09:57:34 AM »
Quote from: hawkwind dave on January 07, 2010, 09:48:57 AM
if GG were trying to slap the seo and web design bunch in the face (with or without a soggy wet fish),

Well that's the thing, Google never slap web designers in the face, they just subtly steer us where they want us to go.  This new focus on page load times is a typical example, they reward faster loading times with some kind of ranking benefit and we go out and try to improve our page loading times.  They reward semantic markup and we use it etc etc

As for slapping the SEO community in the face, they'd put us out of business if they could.
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