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Avvo Expands Into Doctor Search & Ratings

Avvo, the popular lawyers’ directory, is expanding into the medical industry today with a new directory of US-based doctors. The company says its new services launches with profiles of more than 800,000 doctors, as well as a forum where consumers can trade questions and answers with participating doctors.
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AdWords Seller Ratings – U.K. Seeing Stars

Google introduced its AdWords seller ratings feature in the U.S. in June. As of Sunday, it appears the U.K. is now getting this service as well on Google.co.uk, Blogstorm reports.

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Google Mis-Places: Lost Reviews, Ratings, Business Listings

After receiving reports from marketers and businesses stretching from the U.K. to Hawaii, Google says they have fixed a technical issue that caused some business listings to vanish from Google Maps.

According to a post in Google Places Help last night from a Google employee: “We’re aware some of the business listings were not appearing on Google Maps earlier today. This was a technical issue that’s now been resolved.”

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Study: “Facebook Flops, Google Drops” In New Consumer Satisfaction Ratings

That’s the headline that Foresee Results, which administers the e-business portion of the American Consumer Satisfaction Index (ACSI), used to get attention from reporters and bloggers. This is the first year that the survey, which tracks general consumer satisfaction levels with websites, has measured social media.
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Google Maps Bug Impacts Local Business Ratings

Google says it may be “multiple weeks” before they’re able to fix a Google Maps bug that’s showing the wrong star ratings for some local businesses.
A paper/stationery store in Toronto reported the bug last month in the Google Maps Help Forum. The store’s Place Page shows several reviews that are being pulled in from [...]



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Google AdWords Adds Goals & Seller Ratings Extensions

The Google AdWords Blog announced two additions to the program. The first is the ability to set goals in the opportunities tab within the AdWords console and the second is a new seller ratings extension available for some advertisers.
Goals in Opportunity Tab:
Google is rolling out a new feature in the Opportunities tab within AdWords [...]



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How does this site get such good SEO ratings?

And how does a site like this start from scratch? How does it get content that ranks well with people like Google etc
(“This site” is referring to Yahoo Answers to save any confusion)

Tips for Good Google Ratings

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