Jan 8, 2018 Update: Google now clarifies that all reviews from competitors & employees are against guidelines. Before, it stated that posting negative content about a current/former employment experience wasn’t allowed and on January 5 they removed the word “negative”. Before, it stated that posting negative content about a competitor to manipulate their rankings wasn’t allowed..
This year was exciting for me because I decided to launch a training guide for Local SEO that I spend time updating every month. When I started the project I knew it would be time consuming but didn’t quite realize how much would need to be put into the guide to keep it current and..
If I had to pick one misconception about Google My Business that has withstood the test of time, it’s the misconception, or rather myth, that the business owner who has claimed and verified the page is now the owner of that page. This is simply not the case. Joy touched on this recently in her Moz..
As of yesterday, it appears that Google is sending out e-mails to notify Google My Business (GMB) page managers when there is a suggested edit to their listing. Here’s what the e-mail looks like: Here’s the suggested edit inside of the GMB dashboard: From the e-mail Google gives you two options. You can either..
I stumbled across something this morning while checking up on a business that has been filtered due to the Possum algorithm update. It was one of those exciting moments in the life of an SEO when I saw the business was no longer filtered. I’ve had my local rank tracker with Bright Local scanning their..
This month Google launched a brand new newsletter that got emailed out to all active, recent members of the Google Advertiser Community (forum). This includes the AdWords forum, the Google My Business forum, the Google Analytics forum and the Google partners forum. In the newsletter it featured: A helpful article written by one of the..
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