Updated Sept 3: In the last week, Google has changed their mind on whether or not it is okay to link to a 3rd-party website on your G+ Local page. As per the Google My Business guidelines: Do not provide phone…
Tony Leary of Catography Marketing shared this story with me and it was such a good one I had to post it. He worked with a tree service company in Tampa, FL which relocated from Issaquah, WA to Tampa, FL. When they moved,…
I've heard this scenario come up quite a bit over at the Google and Your Business Forum: "My map on Google looks correct yet my customers are being routed to my old location when they get driving directions" which can be…
If you manage lots of Google Plus Business pages on behalf of businesses, likeliness is you will have one account that you have the businesses add as a manager. This is a great way to avoid having to store multiple…
Previously I was always utilizing MapMaker to find the list of categories that a Google Places/Google Plus Local page was targeting. However there is a faster way: Right click on the listing Click View Page Source Press CTRL + F…
So your business moved or has an old phone number. Everyone knows that having a consistent Name, Address, and Phone Number is a big ranking factor in Local Search. But if your business has tons of wrong citations to clean…
Another Google City Expert shared this article about how a restaurant in Richmond, CA started a "Hate us on Yelp" campaign where they decided to offer incentives for users to leave them negative reviews on Yelp. At first, I thought the business…
One of the most common questions I run into at the Google & Your Business Forum (Google Places Forum) is people wanting to know why their reviews got filtered. The first step to figuring that out is to track down…
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