Recent content by AcmeMike

Agreed :) - We will just try a few and see what happens.

Thank you for the input. To be clear, we do have a handful of city pages on our main site. We may try creating a few google sites pages for some "secondary" cities and see how they perform.

Before I irritate anyone - I'm sorry if this is a poor question - I did search this forum for my answer :geek: For a service area business: In lieu of city pages on the main website, would there be any benefit to creating city-specific google sites that link back to the main website? The only...

Yeah, I am not getting involved with anything like that. My new motto is that if it seems too easy to be true, then it isn't.

Thank you so much Joy! This is really great info and includes a lot of stuff I would have never thought of! Thanks again!

I've searched the forum for this and found some info, but some of what I found isn't really recent. I am looking for some suggested best practices for updating GMB when a SAB moves it's only location. In our case, we're a SAB with our location published as customers can visit us if needed. Is...

I am genuinely excited about this new feature. I think it's great, and will really help get people to the right service providers. However, as a business owner, I am gonna hang back and wait to see if anyone has issues with this. I was surprised at all the problems not that long ago when the...

Thank you Colan! I have to admit my instincts were saying if it seams too easy, it's probably cheating. I'll not be pursuing this! Thank you again! Mike

I have a local service area business, and was considering contacting other like businesses located in other areas to see if they would be interested in trading links. Is this a good idea, or not? I definitely do not want to do anything that could be looked at as black hat or shadey. If this is...

No map pin. But this is just when zooming in on our location, not from any search terms. When I zoom in, many of the surrounding businesses appear, but we do not. Just curious why this is.

I have a well optimized GMB listing with quite a few reviews. However, when I open up Google maps and zoom in on our location, we're not showing up. I can see other businesses in our area, but not us. We've been in this location for 5-years now. We are a SAB, but we do have a physical location...

Thank you - I will see if our website team can look our over.

Are there services designed to audit GMB listings for possible violations? I have put quite a bit of time into my listing, and would like to know that I've not done anything that might be frowned upon by the Google God's.

I think in this case, there are two owners and each of them are using their home address.

This makes total sense. Our problem is people setting up multiple accounts in the same general area. What these people are doing is pretty much spam ☹️