Accidental Rankings: Little Mutations That Can Help Your Local SEO Big-Time An “accidental ranking” is just what it sounds like: a term you’ve ranked for without even trying.  Not all accidental rankings are useful, but you’ll find some that turn into some of your strongest local rankings once you start trying to show up for them. What I suggest is simple: 1. Sift through the Google […]
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Almost-Customers Are Local SEO Gold The best people to help you get more customers are your current and past customers.  They give you referrals, reviews, results you can showcase, and more.  The second-best people are your almost-customers.  They give you intel you won’t get anywhere else – if you ask them for it.  You can use that intel to improve […]
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5 Crazy Phenomena in Google Business Profile Page Suspensions Google’s local map is a bewildering place for a business owner (or marketer), especially when you try to figure out why some Google Business Profile pages run into trouble and others don’t.  Half the time there’s no clear rhyme or reason, but the rest of the time the rules or their enforcement kinda-sorta make sense […]
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Risks and Rewards in the Common Get-Ahead Local SEO Tactics To paraphrase Dirty Harry: do you feel lucky? You don’t need much luck if you’re good at weighing risks and rewards.  Local SEO is nothing more than a bunch of trade-offs.  Cobble together a few tactics, a simple method or two to gauge their effectiveness, and fallback options or ways to adjust, and you’ve got […]
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Added a Service Page to Your Site? Now Do These 30 Things for It to Help Your Local SEO and Grab Customers It’s fun to slap together a new “service” page and see fast results, because most of the time it doesn’t work out that way.  More often, you’ll need to put in a little more gruntwork before that new page can help produce organic rankings, Google Maps rankings, and customers. As usual, your process counts for […]
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