So I have been putting the message out into the global market about the problems around Google Places citation data for quite some time, if not for the last 18 months I have been blogging about this issues, I have had two posts featured on sites like Search Engine Land and many other search marketing websites.
Two example of posts I have made highlighting the problems about citation data:
Post 1 click here from November 2010
Post 2 click here from July 2011
The good news is that today Google has decided to stop using citation data from 3rd party websites the post is on the official Google blog here .
Now what does this mean for webmasters, it shows that you need to put an emphasis on Google reviews from Google itself, these have always been a good factor for places rankings.
Interesting times ahead for Google places, I have some huge campaigns running on it atm so this is a very interesting subject for me, please list your thoughts below:
