The Last Local SEO Guy You'll Ever Need
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?
Let's say you're considering renaming or re-branding your business. Part of that will involve renaming your online "local" listings - including Google My Business and Yelp. Easy enough, but what will happen to your reviews? Google's form doesn't … [Continue reading] about If You Rename/Rebrand Your Business, Will You Lose Your Google and Yelp Reviews?
Too few people realize that local SEO is mostly organic SEO plus a few other moving parts. I (and others) have found that without also doing what it takes to rank well in Google’s “10 blue links” results, you won’t grab as much visibility for your … [Continue reading] about Relationship between Local and Organic SEO: a Simple Diagram
Though the first page of Google’s local results usually consists of 3 “local map” results plus 10 organic results, that doesn’t mean your business has 13 chances to rank somewhere on page one. Nor do all pages on your site have an equal chance at … [Continue reading] about Breakdown of Page 1 of Google’s Local Organic Search Results: Who Dominates?