On your way to your seat at the Local Feast, they follow you around like a bad smell. You toil to build a great page or resource on your site, and two days later they’ve copied it. You put research and brain cells into your title tags, internal … [Continue reading] about What Parts of Your Local SEO Can Competitors NOT Steal?
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Thin Local Rankings: Why and How to Think Thick, Not High
Business owners, SEOs, and others refer to good local search rankings as high and bad rankings as low, but they don’t look at whether their rankings are thick or thin. If you just turn your head to the side 90 degrees, you’ll see weaknesses and … [Continue reading] about Thin Local Rankings: Why and How to Think Thick, Not High
Will Google Remove a Google Maps Review After the Owner of the GMB Page Replied to It?
Yes, Google may remove Google Maps reviews that the owner/admin of a Google My Business page wrote a public reply to. Responding to a review doesn’t seem to validate it in Google’s view, as in, “Well, if business owner replied to it, it must be … [Continue reading] about Will Google Remove a Google Maps Review After the Owner of the GMB Page Replied to It?
Google Starts Cheering Anti-Spam Edits in Google Maps
Just about every day I send in edits on Google My Business pages that have committed one party foul or another, but this is the first I’ve seen Google go out of its way to encourage those edits: It was a partial edit of a business’s name, in … [Continue reading] about Google Starts Cheering Anti-Spam Edits in Google Maps
Shoehorning Cities into the Address Field of a Google My Business Page
I may have seen this before, but it must not have registered with me until I saw it more than once on the same page of Google Maps results. In any event, it’s new to me. Below is an example. Do you see what’s out of place? Is it the plump … [Continue reading] about Shoehorning Cities into the Address Field of a Google My Business Page