A common question we get in Local SEO is how businesses that have practitioner listings should approach Google My Business. There is a lot of confusion around how to deal with these and if they help or hurt the business’…
Google recently posted a blog article raving about how it tackled webspam in 2015. The numbers were quite impressive. The webspam team handed out more than 4.3 million manual penalties last year, which must have been pretty labor-intensive. Â If only…
One of the more frustrating, common issues we have in Local Search is when you’re on the phone with a client, searching the same keyword and seeing completely different things. There are 2 things I’ve found that make the biggest…
I noticed today that Google started displaying the neighborhood a business is in beside their primary category on Google in the knowledge panel. There is no field for this in Google My Business and Google is pulling this data from…
I regularly hear things in the Local SEO world that many people believe, but which are completely false. I wanted to put some of these myths to rest by listing out the top 9 Local SEO myths that I run…
Has your business listing in Google been suspended? Not sure what happened? I see threads over at the Google My Business forum all the time from panicked business owners or SEOs who have logged into Google My Business to see…
I used to think that locksmithing was the industry with the highest percentage of fake local listings on Google. I’m starting to think I was wrong. It all started a few weeks ago, when I was talking to Dev Basu…
Update:Â Google re-added these guidelines a couple weeks later (April 1, 2016) Local SEOs rejoiced the day Google came up with the rule for solo-practitioners that indicated locations with only one public-facing professional could combine the listing for the organization and…
I’ve heard many complaints in the last couple years from business owners who have issues with their listings showing up as “Permanently Closed” in the search results on Google. Usually, it happens to businesses who have relocated, and their customers…
Updated Feb 25, 2016: Updated the URL in #6 since the old one stopped working. Also added a bonus troubleshooting tip for this step. In the Local SEO world there are a few Google URLs you should know because they…
After reading the recent article in the New York Times about locksmith spam, I decided to download Bryan Seely's book Cyber Fraud: The Web of Lies. For those of you that aren't familiar with Bryan, he's the one who made…
I often hear people in the Local SEO industry complain about Google My Business (GMB) phone support. I would sit there dreading the calls before I made them, knowing that I'd have to repeat myself several times, wait on hold, and possibly…
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