Embedding a Google Map on Your Website You can include a Google map of your business, location, and reviews on your website. The map will show a Google pin with a view of your business location, address, reviews, review stars,…
Running a business is difficult. You are being pulled in countless directions at any given moment and required to not only be an expert in your field but also an expert at marketing yourself. Between your website, Google rankings, and…
Over the last twelve months, we have had around 38,000 people come to our website through a page that talks about how to contact Google My Business. The majority of these users are trying to find a way to contact…
This article is part 2 of 9 from our LocalU presentation from March 2020. If you missed the event, the videos are available for purchase here. Darren Shaw has done some insightful research showing that category confusion is a real…
As someone who has been involved in editing on Google Maps for over a decade, I thought it was time to put some of the most-common myths to rest by laying out things that we have found are not commonly…
As internet marketers we spend so much time with Google that we often forget that their guidelines are just that. Their Guidelines. Take virtual offices for instance. The bane of every local search marketers existence. In the world of Google…
Last year Joy wrote an article at Moz where she shared five tips on how to show ROI from Local SEO. In Summary, the five tips are: Stop sending automated Google Analytics reports Make conversions the focus of your report…
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…
It's easy to grasp the fact that most e-commerce sites will have various cyclical trends throughout the year. Maybe an uptrend before Christmas, maybe a downtrend for the summer, but other kinds of businesses have trends as well that may…
If you manage listings in Google My Business (GMB) you have likely seen the message inside GMB letting you know that some of your businesses data has been changed. This is what the message looks like in the main area…
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…
In the last few weeks, we’ve been seeing these ads show up consistently now for businesses we were testing it on, but only on mobile. We have yet to see them show up on computers but assume that is coming…