As I’ve observed and written for many years, your Google reviews are never completely safe - and never completely gone. You can lose them in bulk or in a drip. You can lose them because of Google’s filter, manual removal, a bug, or a reviewer’s … [Continue reading] about What to Do If You Lost All Your Google Reviews after Accidentally Deleting Your GMB Page
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Spin-off Pages: a Bazooka for Your Local SEO
You’ve been on many sites that have them. Your stronger competitors probably have some. You may even have a few on your site. In any case, what I call “spin-off pages” aren’t a new thing, but SEOs and business owners tend not to think of them … [Continue reading] about Spin-off Pages: a Bazooka for Your Local SEO
Odd Relationships in Local Search
One of the first things you notice about Google Maps and the rest of the local search zoo is that usually there’s no single, isolated reason one business outranks another. Rather, all kinds of factors come into play: some obvious, some less obvious, … [Continue reading] about Odd Relationships in Local Search
Seed Audiences: the Most Practical Way to Make Blogging Work for a Local Business
For most business owners and others who try it, blogging is a frustration factory. The way they go about it, it’s a time gobbler, a grind, and a disappointment until they give up - 47 blog posts and 0 new links, 0 visitors, and 0 customers … [Continue reading] about Seed Audiences: the Most Practical Way to Make Blogging Work for a Local Business
7 Phases of a Local Business Reviews Campaign That Makes It Rain
Even people who do a solid job of getting online reviews tend to make the process tougher than it needs to be, because they do the right steps in the wrong order. That can mean unnecessary trial and error, frustration, wasted time, wasted money, and … [Continue reading] about 7 Phases of a Local Business Reviews Campaign That Makes It Rain