You may have a strong Google My Business listing, but what happens when individual practitioners at your location have their own listings? What happens when one of these individuals decides to leave your practice?
I had a unique experience a couple months ago that confirmed that Google weights local ranking factors differently for branded search terms than they do for non-branded ones. Before I explain what happened, I need to first clarify that there are…
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. 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…
July 19, 2016 - As reported in the comments, this method appears to no longer work. May 2, 2016: Updated to include the second way. Huge thanks to Dino Basaldella at SEO West for the tip. I've often heard business owners…