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Let’s say you have a local competitor with a Google My Business page with a spammy name like “Your Best HVAC Company Cleveland.” You know the real name of their business is “Harry’s Heating,” and you’ve submitted the real name as an edit in Google … [Continue reading] about Can’t Fix a Spammy Google Maps Name? Try a Partial Edit
One week or less, from what I’ve seen. A 7-Eleven opened nearby last year, but Yelp didn't have a page for that location. The locally-owned convenience store that used to be at that location had and still has a Yelp page. (Nobody’s reported it … [Continue reading] about How Long Does It Take for a User-Submitted Yelp Page to Rank on Page 1 for a Branded Search?
“Barnacle” SEO, or the process of getting a page other than a page on your site to rank well in Google’s local organic search results, can be a great way to grab extra local visibility. If your competitors get barnacle SEO to work for them, more … [Continue reading] about Scraping Gray SEO Barnacles off the Local Spam Flotilla
Some local SEO companies tout “contacts” at Google who can straighten out problems (like competitors’ spam or a penalty you think you’ve received). Sometimes that suggestion is plain untrue, other times it’s an exaggeration, and most times it’s … [Continue reading] about What Kinds of “Contacts at Google” Can Local SEO Companies Have?
Few business owners have used the Google My Business “description” field, now that it’s returned. Even fewer make their description do any work. Google wiped out businesses’ descriptions when it retired GMB descriptions a couple of years ago. … [Continue reading] about 5 Types of Google My Business Descriptions That Go Boom