Recent content by Barb Davids

Figured it out. Turns out the www wasn't in the URL and so it was considered redirecting and stripped out the parameters.

I was just reminded, we changed the link to capital on purpose to see if that would help. It didn't. It's just stripping out the parameters.

Hi Colan, I went to grab a video for you and just noticed the source had a capital Local instead of a lowercase local, and the lowercase local is what's not showing. So I thought it was because of that. But I don't see any traffic from the capital Local source. I went to the link and watch...

One of my client sites is showing almost no traffic from their Google listing to GA3. I double checked, the UTM codes are on the URL. Insights doesn't show there's any issue; traffic as normal. Has anyone else experienced this or have ideas why this might be happening? Thank you for your...

Hi all! I've been manually tracking post views. They seem to be all over the place. Some are going up, some are going up and down. I would expect for some to go up over time as people may scroll through the posts, but why would they go down? Does Google "adjust" that much? Appreciate any...

On a related note, I started posting once a week to almost daily (and photos area) with one client and their leads from GMB have increased slightly. They are in the wedding/photography industry. Another client, dental industry, I went from once a week to twice a week and no change.

I've been tagging for awhile but generally speaking they don't get clicked much. The homepage does though and I do track that information back to leads and revenue. I was just curious if certain types of post images for this particular client is more active than another. Thanks for the link!

Sorry for the delay! It's when I'm looking at posts themselves. Those numbers. I don't know of way to pull those numbers, the number of views a post got, except by scrolling through. But not sure how long I should give it because I know that the numbers can get larger the longer the post is up.

How long should I wait to collect/review number of views on a post? Is it based on the first 3 or so that show or in general two week or more? I see older posts that have higher views than newer ones. Someone new is posting but I don't know when to attribute it to the content being used (I...

My client just sent a copy of his business license.

Same. One client because he moved. Mine was suspended because I accidentally changed the address from not showing to showing back to not showing again. Another client, we have no clue yet. She just started posted about a month ago, once a week. I also had an colleague reach out asking what...

1. Local signal for Google 2. Helpful list for other freelancers in the area. I've always wanted a list like this for myself, that wasn't out of date.

If I'm writing a blog about local coworking spots in town, do you think it's better to put the address in the copy or just link to Google maps? Or to their website? Or all of the above? I've been trying to find some research on local search indicators but having a tough time finding something...

Ohh! Good point about the suspiciousness. Thank you!

If someone moves their business to a different state and their phone number stays the same as the old location, should they change their phone and all listings to a new local area code number? Does it impact GMB listing if they do not change it to a local area code phone number? Thanks!