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If you’ve made any effort to get your business more visible on Google’s local map, you’ve seen competitors whose visibility there surprises you. Either they’re deadbeats and you have no idea why they rank well, or they’re hardworking and you’re not … [Continue reading] about Why Is This [BLEEP]er Outranking Me in the Google Maps Results?
Even the obvious benefits of great customer reviews are almost too many to count. To wit: They take a little pressure off your site to “convert,” because visitors arrive largely pre-sold. They can help you eat up more of page one of … [Continue reading] about The Ridiculous Hidden Power of Local Reviews: Umpteen Ways to Use Them to Get More Business
Google’s local-business pages of yore offered many ways to blow up your rankings - in the good sense or the bad sense. Lots of customizable fields you could stuff full of keyword powder and watch go “boom.” In recent years, though, Google has … [Continue reading] about Your Google My Business Page in 2017: How Hard Is It to Mess Up?
I’ll never say you need to hire me or anyone else. If your goal is to reach more customers/clients/patients in the local search results, you may or may not benefit from a third party. I often tell clients and others that they should farm out as … [Continue reading] about Dumbest Reasons to Hire a Local SEO Company or Person
Update 2/14/17: Google eventually removed the review, after keeping it up for 3-4 days. I suspect that, as I requested, enough readers flagged it down. Just to see if Google would do anything. Thanks to Glenn Gabe for alerting me. Now I have a … [Continue reading] about I Wrote a Google Review of My Own Business. What Did Google Do?