Since transferring its Places for Business to Nokia Prime Places, Bing has run wild with its verification process. After years of frustration, Canadian business owners can finally submit their free business listings to Bing Canada, thanks to Nokia’s recent partnership with Microsoft.
But the frustration has not gone away.
As a local ‘brick and mortar’ small business, you depend on foot traffic. The very existence of your business relies on getting customers in your door with money, and out your door with your product or service. You spend most of your time focused on managing your store operations and maximizing your bottom line.
The simple message is – stay away from these masters of domain deception.
We all seem to own domains, and it seems as though there are thousands of domain registrars out there. Domain registrars being companies we buy domains (URL’s) from.
After reading Owen Clark's post today where he states that #1 On Google Is Not What You Want - I have a few quick thoughts. Thanks to Owen for making me think today - although I don't agree with his headline - he makes his point. 
Nothing can quite stir human emotion more than something that really ought not to matter – race. And that’s race, in terms of individual ethnicity.
For us being located in Vancouver Canada at the moment we are still struggling with helping a vast majority of business create their 1st website and/or update an incredibly old site. In fact Google indicated in an event held in Toronto that 55% of Canadian businesses DO NOT have a website!
Google recently announced changes in how they will rank maps (basically Google Reviews will be a HUGE component while Citations wont play quite the dominate role they once did). Our own personal insight has been that citations still play a more significant role that they are perhaps letting on. This seems to be especially true for CANADIAN businesses. While we are still encouraging our clients to work on reviews we thought we would share a list of the top 58 canadian citations:
As LocalTrifecta grows, as we welcome new clients, and increase our revenue, which we have done increasingly since starting just over a year ago, it’s important for us to keep balanced.
Just received a couple of postings for a non-profit entrepreneurial organization based in Surrey. SEEDS Business Development Centre has been around a good number of years is is approaching its 100th graduating class. I’m on the board of directors and the mission of the organization is fantastic.
I received an interested an interesting email this morning from Yelp entitled "Your Yelp Updates for the Week of May 2". The email was dedicated to a survey they had conducted with Yelp BUSINESSES and their interaction with the Yellow Pages.
