Photos & Local SEO: Simple Ways to Put More Notches on Your Belt with Images The biggest problem with most advice on “image SEO” is it focuses too much on what images you should take and how you should take them.  Often that advice rests on an assumption that you’re in a photogenic line of work, where it’s both easy and wise to take photos of what you offer and […]
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Review-Fu: 13 Nimble Ways to Get More and Better Reviews of Your Local Business In your effort to get reviews that grow your cred and your business, it’s easy to get stale.  You ask the same people, in the same way, around the same time, for roughly the same favor.  You leave it alone unless and until there’s a big problem or a big gap in your armor.  Perhaps […]
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Why Does One of Your Business Locations Outrank Another in the Google Maps Results? There’s a long list of reasons one of your Google Business Profile pages might be riding high on the local map while another is buzzard bait.  My aim in this post is simple: to help you narrow down the list of possible causes, so you can make your weakest location more visible and bountiful.  To […]
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Google Maps “Suggest an Edit” Loophole: 2nd Reports Approved (Sometimes) When you use “suggest an edit” to report a business that’s spamming Google Maps, your standard operating procedure might go something like this: you send in only one report per Google Business Profile per violation, and you wait until Google approves or rejects it before you do anything else.  That’s not bad SOP, and often […]
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What Makes Some Google Maps Spam Stick? Some businesses flout Google’s suggestions rules, moon their competitors, and are punished with great local rankings and plenty of businesses.  How do they get away with it? The reasons vary from case to case, but they’re always more specific than “duh” explanations like that “Google doesn’t care” (it doesn’t) or that some people play dirty […]
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