Comments on: How to Track your Google Local Listing

By: Local SEO Guy

Local SEO Guy — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 01:32:05 +0000

It would be too easy for google to come with better tracking for their place listings. Good tips and I think they still hold true. I remember seeing an article, I think on searchengineland that had some good tips as well. Using a vanity URL is a great tip!

By: Carl Larson

Carl Larson — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 23:36:16 +0000

Reading this post a bit closer, I see that this was tried & the author gave up after 48 hours. Try waiting a week. It works.

By: Carl Larson

Carl Larson — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 23:34:40 +0000

So, I dunno about y’all, but this solution (repeated on about 10 other Local SEO blogs) does not work for me. Too complicated even if I had so much access to a client’s site, which I never do.

Acting on a hunch, I used the normal utm modifiers in the Google Maps listings of a few of my clients. Took a week for Google to approve them (otherwise says “pending”) but then, once the right segment is set up in GA) works like a charm!

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Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:02:01 +0000

[...] Tracking Issues Even though Google Places (see I got there in the end) is a Google property it doesn’t get picked up in your Google Analytics (that would be too logical) and although they offer separate reporting in the local business account this just isn’t good enough in my opinion. It’s pretty much a no brainer that Marketers and site owners would want to know where their traffic came from, and which keywords generated the traffic. I want to know the difference between my local and organic traffic god damn it. But as we soon discovered if we wanted to track the local results we had to figure it out ourselves, with a little help from our friends. [...]

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By: Staying on top of local search: ranking and tracking made easy. : MediaVision Blog : Search Engine Marketing

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:57:23 +0000

[...] This informative article focuses on the importance of statistics and how tracking and monitoring your listings will benefit you in the long run as well as give you insight into your target market. In this article, Sam Murray gives an enlightening How To guide on tracking Google listings. Murray shares some tracking tips like how to place your local listing through a local business centre, the effect of vanity URL’s and the use of 301 redirects. How to track your Google Local listing [...]

By: Lisa Myers

Lisa Myers — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 17:40:49 +0000

Hi Mike,

Thanks for your comment. The blogpost on SEOoverflow says pretty much the same as us. Good to see someone else came to the same conclusion. We didn’t use the # but used canonical tag which is the only difference really.

This has made such a big difference to our clients, the buy-in to local search has totally changed since we have been able to implement the tracking

By: Mike Belasco

Mike Belasco — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:24:31 +0000

Hi Sam,
We’ve got a pretty comprehensive guide to tracking local traffic in GA on this blog post. It uses some of the methods described above.

http://www.seoverflow.com/blog/local-seo/google-analytics-for-local-search-part-1-of-7-tracking-traffic-from-the-10-pack/

I hope this is useful to you and your readers.

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A4U Expo 2009 - Web Analytics Presenation by Lisa Myers | Verve Search — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:11:26 +0000

[...] from Distilled and Joanna Butler from Lattitude. My presentation focused on the very specifics on how to track Google Local Business Listings , which Verve Search has recently successfully implemented for our clients. Tracking Google Local [...]

By: Martijn Beijk

Martijn Beijk — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:28:43 +0000

Hey Sam!

Great post and it was great to share findings during this specific business case and spar a bit on the issues you have encountered. It is good to see everything worked out and you documented the process in this excellent post.

About adding the GA campaign URL to the LBC I must say that this has always worked for me. I must admit however that I have seen cases where the business suddenly ‘disappeared’ from the top rankings after some time. Updating the LBC profile with a 301/vanity URL to the redirected domain with campaign parameters solved the problem almost instantaneously. As soon as Google Maps had updated the URL the rankings were back to ‘normal’.