Why do some serps have a + map symbol?
-
Hi from sunny but freezing wetherby UK..
Ive noticed when you enter "York solicitors" some listings have + Show map symbol. Hers is a screen shot to illustrate:
http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/plus-map-serps-langleyscopy.jpg
I'd like to know please what i would have to do to emulate this.
Thanks in advance,
David
-
Hi Again, David,
I've had a chance to talk this other with a few other Local SEOs, and here is the consensus of opinion on the Plus Box.
1. It's algorithmically generated - so nothing you can do to force a plus box on your listing.
2. That being said, following Google's general recommendations on this page might be useful:
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=92319&from=52171&rd=1
3. Also, be advised that there appears to be some kind of a new crackdown going on regarding plus boxes and certain businesses who have lost Google's trust seeing their plus boxes disappear. This is a new issue and I don't have any solid data on it. But, it leads me to ask...did you have a plus box before and see it go missing? Curious!
Hope this reply helps some.
Miriam
-
Hi David, The Google Plus Box was first rolled out in 2006. Here is a Matt Cutts post on the topic from way back when: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/new-google-ui-feature-plus-box/ Here is an excellent sleuthing post from Mike Blumenthal in 2008 about figuring out the sources for bad data in the plus box: http://blumenthals.com/blog/2008/03/06/google-plus-box-where-does-the-wrong-data-come-from/ The trouble with looking for documentation on this right now is that anything you search for related to 'google' and 'plus' is bringing up studies of Google+ and not the old Google plus box. I'm going to dig a little deeper, David. I'll return to this thread when I have some more info to share with you.
-
At least one other site has google maps embedded, but that one is using an iframe. The site in question is using javascript and has a google maps API key in the header.
Both have claimed Google places listings with the location indicated.
-
Hi David
Had a quick look in the SERP's and my guess is that they 'seem' to be the only page one result that has the map embedded on their site. http://www.guestwalker.co.uk/find-us/google-map/
It's just a guess from me - but I'd give that a try and hopefully google will add that map link for your clients site.
edit : Have a look at the clients google places page and also look into rich snippets if you've not done so already. I ran the URL that you mentioned through http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets?view=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guestwalker.co.uk but they are not using rich snippets btw
Got a burning SEO question?
Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
Google Showing wrong image in the SERPS
Hi Guys, In organic SERPS Google pulling incorrect product image, instead of product image its showing image from relevant products, Checked the structured data, og:image everything is set to the product image, not sure why google showing images from relevant product sidebar, any help, please?
Technical SEO | | SpartMoz0 -
Will sitemap generated in Yoast for a combined wordpress/magento site map entire site ?
Hi For an ecommerce site thats been developed via a combination of wordpress and magento and has yoast installed, will the sitemap (& other yoast features) map (& apply to) the entire site or just wordpress aspects ? In other words does one need to do anything else to have a full sitemap for a combined magento/wordpress site or will Yoast cover it all ? This link seems to suggest should be fine but seeing if anyone else encountered this and had problems or if straightforward ? http://fishpig.co.uk/wordpress-integration/docs/plugins.html cheers dan
Technical SEO | | Dan-Lawrence0 -
Redirects in site map
I have a site with the ace/sef ( creates friendly URLS) in a large data base site. It creates a site map dynamically. Yet I realize one issue which I am trying to think through. I recently changed my urls to include an ID number example: homepage/houses/1134-big-blue-house The prior url was: homepage/houses/big-blue-house the original url above redirects to the new one with the ID like I want. However the site map has both URLS in it which go to same page I am not sure but it seems rather stupid to have the new URL and OLD redirected URL in the site map. Yet beside stupid I am wondering if this is duplicate content and will cause a penalty from the google bot. What is your opinion ?
Technical SEO | | aimiyo0 -
Getting images indexed in the SERPS
Good Afternoon form 13 degrees C totally Sunny Wetherby UK 🙂 Am i right in thinking that the only way to get images appearing like this in your serps: http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/innovia-merchant-immages-serpscopy.jpg is to be hooked up to Google Merchant? Which kind of means if the sight your working on has no images then this type of enhancement is out of bounds? Thanks in advance, David
Technical SEO | | Nightwing0 -
Replacing a site map
We are in the process of changing our folder/url structure. Currently we have about 5 sitemaps submitted to Google. How is it best to deal with these site maps in terms of either (a) replacing the old URLs with the new ones in the site map and (b) what affect should we have if we removed the site map submission from the Google Webmaster Tools console. Basically we have in the region of 20,000 urls to redirect to the new format, and to update in the site map.
Technical SEO | | NeilTompkins0 -
New (google) local SERPs has 40 character limit on title length
Should i change my all the page titles for pages that show up in local SERPs to reflect this new limit? Is there any benefit to leaving it at the old limit and having more keywords in there? Or would there be benefit to conforming to google's new standard and having shorter titles?
Technical SEO | | adriandg0 -
Why mobi version of the file comes up higher on SERPs when compared to the web version?
hi Please see the URL http://news.oneindia.in/2011/10/22/tech-gmail-to-get-a-makeover-soon-google.html
Technical SEO | | greyniumseo
The corresponding mobile version is http://news.oneindia.mobi/2011/10/22/886893.html If we search for "Google video leaks; Gmail to get a make over soon" on Google the mobi version comes up instead of the web version. One reason could be because of the browser title. We do use meta title in our web version of the article. For the past few months our mobi version of the file comes up higher on SERPs when compared to the web version. What could be the reason? regards0 -
Considering redirecting my site from .com/us to just .com. What could the possible SERP consequences?
Today we use country-specific .tlds but have the US site on .com/us; .com is now a 'flag-site.' Ikea uses that structure too (.com/.com/us). Looking potential risk to redirecting current US site to .com.
Technical SEO | | KnutDSvendsen0