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If you or someone you know is a business owner whose business has been shut down or severely hobbled by Coronavirus regulation or the like, I’m glad to offer a bit of local SEO/search/visibility advice free of charge or obligation. All you’d need to … [Continue reading] about Pro Bono Local SEO Help for Businesses Locked Down by Coronavirus
If you’ve got a Google My Business page that specifies your service area but not your address, Google won’t show your category in the sidebar (the “knowledge panel”). You’ll still see it in Google Maps and in the 3-pack. You’ll also see … [Continue reading] about Google My Business Category Not Showing for Service-Area Businesses with Hidden Addresses
An “Areas Served” or “Service Areas” or “Cities” or “Locations” page doesn’t get much consideration in the local SEO world, and that’s a shame. If you do it right, that kind of page can rank for some juicy terms, help other pages to rank, make your … [Continue reading] about How to Make a “Service Areas” Page That Hunts
Some business owners say things like, “I don’t have enough budget for local SEO.” You may not have money to waste on work that doesn’t work, and you may not have the budget for all the conveniences you want. But the basic activities you can always … [Continue reading] about Good Ways and Bad Ways to Save Money on Local SEO
SEOs often have a hard time with moderation. They tend to sit at extremes and take an all-or-nothing approach - to getting links, building citations, creating “content,” jamming keywords into pages, and so on. If they were actors, they’d be William … [Continue reading] about Is Your Local SEO Person Shell-Shocked, Gun-Shy, and TOO Afraid of Angering Google? How to Avoid the Phobias