Recent content by Ashwin

I recently wrote a bot to mass claim Yelp listings and didn't hit any block hurdles. So, I don't think Yelp really throttles you when trying to verify a few 100 per week. We did about 400 last week without any problems.

Need to be logged into MapsConnect or the App to be able to see any of their business listings, so, I'm afraid none of it is indexable by Google :(

I would suggest you add a line somewhere in the GMB description that says it's a Kodiak Fitness Centers gym. You can also additionally include this in the homepage title - if that's going to be a problem, add it to the About Us page or equivalent for every gym. Since you're not going to have...

I don't think neither Whitespark nor BrightLocal handle directories that require verification by phone.

Jon, Yelp does block the number of claims you can make based on the IP address. We've run into this issue multiple times and the only way you can fix this is by using proxies from different c-classes. I would suggest you purchase proxies from a service like MyPrivateProxy.com which is pretty...

Just got off the phone with my Yahoo Local sales rep. I've been trying to work out a bulk upload deal of their enhanced listings the past couple of weeks and it's been slooow to say the least. I just heard from him that they no longer support bulk listings and the only way I could work with...

Like Colan says, there is a "Flag Abuse" button under each review which you can use to report slander, but it may take rather long for YP to respond or remove it. I'd suggesting using the flag option and if the reviews are not removed within 2 weeks, picking up the phone to contact YPs sales...

Thanks for sharing Chris!

Scott - I picked up from your biggest problem and wrote a blog post about it this week - How Do You Convince Clients That It's a Marathon And Not A Sprint But, this was centered around how to convince your clients that it's a marathon and not a sprint.

It is possible that these companies have crawlers that pick up business data as well as manual "data gatherers" who might be involved in picking up some of this data. Remember, it is in their best interest to have duplicate listings of your business on their system since this forces you to pay...

Thanks for sharing Linda!

I'd go with CallRail or roll my own using Twilio. The latter is cheaper and gives you more flexibility.

It is for the same reason why ALL of your backlinks wont show up in SEMRush or any other tool. All of these guys have an index that doesn't truly capture everything. I'm assuming that as they start crawling all of citations along with backlinks that you've built, they'll start reporting it.

Mike this typically happens because BrightLocal *might* be using a third-party cache like Google Custom Search to retrieve citations and also because of limitations in the search functionality on certain directories. Some directories are extremely unreliable and their search doesn't work...

Back in the day, I experimented with offering pay-per-lead type services for local businesses. We ended up signing up almost 200 customers for this service and blew a lot of money without much results to show for. We set up websites from scratch, call tracking, analytics, content and the whole...