Another Google MapMaker Regional Lead was talking with me about a page for a business that recently came unverified and vanished from the search results. You can see that the Google+ page is unverified because it lost its verified checkmark…
You've done everything right in terms of local SEO -- you're even ranking high in organic results -- but you just can't seem to get a place in the map pack. What's wrong?
This is a feature I've been asking for a lot. You can now see if a store is located inside a mall when you search on Google. You'll see in the Knowledge Panel it shows the mall the store is…
After I posted this article, the messaging on Google actually changed. Barry Schwartz captured a before/after screenshot in his Search Engine Land article. Bill Slawski also posted about this and concluded "Do click-throughs determine whether certain pages appear in search results?…
I was helping a user on the GMB forum and found it's getting even harder to find duplicates now with MapMaker not having a phone-number search option any more. Currently, I search on Google for "plus.google.com" "999-999-9999" and then add…
I wrote an article on Search Engine Land a couple weeks ago that shows the steps a business owner should make when relocating his office. It's always a painful process in the Local SEO world but I've dealt with it…