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Yesterday while talking to a potential client I noticed a new feature that Google had implemented into the SERPs in the US (If your outside of the US add &gl=us to the search URL, or &gl=ca to see how it doesn't work out side of the US). The search term the client was interested in was Used Cars Utah, and various other permutations and themed terms. If you Google the term Used Cars Utah, you get an input box and two select boxes for "Location", "Make", and "Model". Having searched for Used Cars Utah "Make" was selected as all with a "Model" of "Utah", okay so its definitely beta point taken.


So next I Googled the root phrase "Used Cars", up popped 1 input and 2 selects but with different names "Location", "Make", "Condition" with Used selected as the condition so now we have two different forms based on the search phrase. Playing around I next Googled Cars Victoria (my home city), and go the results with the Model select box and Victoria selected, with Ford the Make (Okay so I'm assuming Google recognized a Ford Crown Victoria).

Lastly I was curious where the exceptions are if you Google terms like "Cars Acura", "Cars Lexus", "Cars BMW" or other makes you don't get any results with the manufacturers being #1 respectively for their terms. Now if you change it up a bit and add the term Used Cars Manufacturer, you get the search box for Lexus + Acura, but not BMW. Once again definitely beta, but I'm sure they'll be making adjustments as time goes by.

If you own a dealership and your interested in getting your vehicles listed you'll want to know that it is powered by the Google Base API. Once you start searching through the results you can quickly find vehicles in your region. Currently there are 79,666 used Acura's on Google Base Vehicle Search. Now thats a bit of a selection!

Labels: google, Google Base, SERPs

The most recent article in the series of ten was published today by Li Evans of Search Marketing Gurus. I first met Li at an SES event some time ago, have interviewed her once for Webmaster Radio (as I will get to again for the accompanying show to this article so be sure to catch it either at 11am PST or download the podcast.

Li is definitely an expert on social media - up there with Neil Patel. The article is an awesome read and her contribution to our ten part series is greatly appreciated. Thanks Li !!!

But enough preamble, you can read the article on our site here.

Labels: li evans, seo article, social media

Back on February 13th we reported here that a paid listing on Business.om had killed the Yahoo! results for a client of ours. We had the listing removed from Business.com and I spoke with them and asked that any feeds sent to Yahoo! not include our client.

One of the indicators of the issue was that the page was caching at 89k on Yahoo! and was actually redirecting through Business.com when clicked. A few days after the removal of the site from Business.com the cache size returned to normal.

Well, we are pleased to announce that as of last Friday (the 7th) the rankings are back.

So we can confirm that it's a pretty quick bounce-back if you've got a Business.com listing and watched your rankings on Yahoo! tank.

Hopefully this isn't you but if it is - you know what to do (and sorry to our friends over at Business.com but head's up - this is something you REALLY need to address and address it FAST).

Labels: business.com, yahoo