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Will people find me if they search for me in Google and other major search engines?
Sander Daniels
posted this on October 03, 2010 11:46
Yes. Posting your services at Thumbtack lets the world know more about what you offer. It's a great benefit, and all you have to do is post your services. We'll take care of the rest.
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I saw (Google Places) another Thumbtack Video SEO biz that has an image linked to their Thumbtack listing. This is a nice citation element and one that I suspect ALL Thumbtack users would like to mirror. Would be handy and useful if someone could 1) detail the 1-2-3 steps on how to do this 2) create a by the numbers video on the same 3) add this to the FAQ and / or the appropriate forum
Good eye, Neil!
Yes, Google uses a lot of the data that is uploaded to our site in their Google Places listings. If they use photo/video data, they include a citation to Thumbtack.com.
You'd be surprised - actually, there are lots of people who DON'T like this. We've received a number of complaints about this - people think we're hijacking their Google Places listing or something.
In any case, we have no control over this. Google uses the content on our site, connects it to Google Places, and they cite to us. There's nothing we can do about this - so whether you like it or not, we can't help out either way.
Hope this helps, and thanks for stopping by, Neil!
~Heather
Heather,
Got it. This is in line w/ the news the GP will auto populate a listing and [alert] the listing holder with the updated data. Still, if one of your tech wizards know of how I could / should code my TT listing so the Goog bots could pick scrape it and add to my GP listing, that would be nice. Amazing others have heart burn over this one? The more a GP listing is referenced via TTack or Yelp or other IYP's the better they will rank in the local SERP's. This would be a nice entry for an upcoming blog from your desk maybe?
Neil
Hi Neil,
You seem to be an expert in this stuff!
Our indexation rate for Google is pretty high and we already do everything we can to get it as high as possible. There's not much (not anything really...) that you can do to increase the chances or speed of it getting scraped. It's just one of those things - one day the citation just appears.
Is that right about the higher ranking in SERP if a GP listing has more citations? That's interesting, I don't think we knew that. Maybe I'll research this and do a blog post on it as you suggest. Nice idea!
~Heather