What is Keyword Stuffing? Keyword Stuffing is the practice of adding keywords to your name in Google My Business to help it rank higher. It’s still a very common practice in Local SEO because it gives you a ranking advantage on Google Maps and in the 3-Pack. The study that came out from Local SEO..
There are so many different scenarios that could exist in the Google My Business (GMB) world when it comes to duplicate listings. Why Should You Care About Duplicate Listings? Contrary to what you might have heard, duplicate listings are no longer “ranking killers”. They used to have a negative impact on ranking when I first..
Google just added a paragraph under the “Business Description” section in the Google My Business Guidelines that reads: Note: We do not allow content that contains private or confidential information such as personal financial information, government-issued IDs, contact information linked/associated with a name, sensitive records, images, transcripts or links that contain personal information. We also do..
Google has added a section to the guidelines that clarifies the policies for events on Google Maps. The guidelines state that events are subject to the following guidelines: Events should reflect the real world. That means they should be real, accurate, and occuring at the specified location. Event titles should not promotional language, pricing information,..
It’s been almost two years since Google My Business dropped the ability to edit the business description field. Once the ability to edit your business description was removed from GMB the only way to edit your business description was by going to aboutme.google.com and editing it there. Fast forward almost two years and the business..
Google My Business just launched 2 new features in the GMB dashboard and just to keep us all on our toes, one only works in the new dashboard and the other only works on the GMB Classic dashboard ? Both these new features really only impact users that manage lots of locations. If you only manage..
We get a ton of questions from business owners and fellow SEO’s related to all aspects of digital marketing. Every so often we come across questions that seem to be asked over and over again. When we come across these questions, and there is no resource to point people towards, we like to create some..
This past week we learned a useful trick to get rid of the “Duplicate Addresses” label inside GMB. With the current iteration of the GMB dashboard, Google will add a “Duplicate Addresses” label to any listings that are at the same address. In the screenshot below, for instance, are two listings for the same law..
It looks like the option to upload videos to a Google My Business listing has finally arrived. This was just spotted in one of our clients dashboards: The ability to add a video to a local listing VIA Google Maps was first noticed back in August, 2017. But this is the first time the option..
It’s been a few months now since Google (re)introduced the bookings feature to Google My Business. We have had some interest in the feature from some of our clients but were initially unable to answer the myriad of questions that they have about the new feature and the dozen or so scheduling partners. Since there..
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