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Isn’t that a huge waste? Think of how hard you worked to learn your craft, start your business, stay in business, get customers, and do a great job for them and earn those positive reviews. That’s why it’s stupid not to ask for online reviews. … [Continue reading] about Why Send Good Customers to Crappy Review Sites?
I want to emphasize that I have not tested this - even to the extent you can “test” anything in local search. Rather, I’ve just observed a couple things: 1. Google seems to integrate online “Make an appointment” software into local businesses’ … [Continue reading] about Online Scheduling: on the Rise in Google and a Local Search Ranking Factor?
A few days ago I wrote about a tricky issue I seem to have figured out based on a hunch: that having two or more Google My Business pages in the same service area can cause problems if you need to owner-verify one of the pages. When I was … [Continue reading] about The Most Obscure “Rule” in Google My Business – a Nasty Surprise
Update 4/2/16: This appears to have been a result of a now-resolved bug. Thanks to Priya Chandra for letting me know. How can you tell whether a Google My Business page is unverified? Now Google will just show you in the SERPs if you search for … [Continue reading] about Unverified Google My Business Pages Now Showing in SERPs
Did your Google My Business verification postcard end up in the wrong neighborhood? (goo.gl/S6DEks) Yesterday I did a consultation for a guy whose client - an HVAC contractor - had a problem with duplicate Google pages. Just two pages - one for … [Continue reading] about Google My Business Mails Verification Postcard to the Wrong Address: What to Do