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For a while now, Google has been crawling our client sites and suggesting ALOT of services. A lot of them are duplicates or related. Please see screenshots attached and an example below for an HVAC client: - AC Units - Ac Units - Air Conditioning Units - New Air Conditioning Unit - Our Air...

I've been using Local Viking for over a year. I use it to schedule a client's bi-weekly posts and then use the geogrids for several other clients. I am confused about their policy to integrate with the Google API and create a new sub-domain, etc. My Agency API request has been approved by...

I am interested to hear if you have seen any impact (positive, neutral or negative) from the June Core Update. I have a few listings which have had a hit... I'm trying to understand if this is the update or something else.

I have a client in the spiritual sector looking to increase DA through guest posts. They don't currently have a list of websites that they can guest post on. In your opinion what is the best option? A) Find where their competitors have been guest posting based on backlinks in AHREFS then use...

I have a client whose main category is Alternative medicine practitioner. It is a Canadian service-based business. I would like to add a secondary category of Wellness Centre since she is expanding her operation to include other practitioners. However, I will need to add a physical location...

The Request Indexing feature is currently disabled on Google Search Console for technical reasons on their end. Google says it will be back in the next few weeks but in the meantime is there another way to request indexing? One of my SEO clients, checked no-index on all of their pages 🤦‍♀️ so...

Will posting on GMB too often negatively impact rankings? Is there an optimal amount that you finds works for you?

According to Bright Local there were a lot of fluctuations in legal services on September 3rd. A potential algorithm update. Since then, one of our client's rankings have tanked. They were in the top 3 for most of their keywords and since then they have dropped to the second page and beyond...

Hi all, We manage a cannabis shop in Canada where CBD is legal. Are we allowed to upload images of cannabis/cannabis products to the listing without action being taken against this listing? I ask because Google Ads bans cannabis-related ads and the posts are disabled for this category. Thanks!

Thanks Joy. Its is Our clients get "Invitation failed (Role not allowed)" when trying to add our Organization ID - Google My Business Community

Hey, @Colan Nielsen thanks for your feedback. I have added a thread to the GMB forum. Fingers crossed this gets resolved soon.

Hi Colan, Yes we have had many emails back and forth and they don't seem to understand the error. They say things like accept the invitation which is impossible etc. Any idea what I can try?

When clients try to add our organizational ID they get the following message: Invitation failed (Role not allowed). We have had clients adding us this way for months and have never had any issues until recently. Has anyone else encountered this? Can you please suggest some troubleshooting...

@BenFisher @Stefan Somborac Would you suggest I leave it in that case since they are still performing well for their keywords?

I have a client who is a pharmaceutical training company. Their sole purpose is to train in the life sciences field but the person who set up the listing made "pharmaceutical company" the primary category. I would like to change it to education center or training center but if I do that will it...