Recent content by bdlowery

For future reference I would never reply to any of these type of reviews. Just report and wait for them to be removed. Also I looked up your company name and those reviews are not showing anymore.

I'm talking about this. It's possible to get 100% by completing the basics of a GBP. Like adding a phone number, adding pictures of your work (which is glitched for me), adding hours of operation, etc.

"It's just someone who is better at marketing than the competition." This is not marketing... it's literally spam. The companies are verified somehow at bogus locations (maybe from the old postcard era?), all of the reviews are fake and AI generated, all of the websites are fake copy + paste...

Some people disagree - https://whitespark.ca/local-search-ranking-factors/#pack-maps

I'm researching carpet cleaning companies in an area and I found 10+ businesses all ranking highly in the local map pack (first page), all with the same copy + paste websites, generic stock photos, and tons of fake AI reviews. What kind of scam is this? Is it someone who doesn't live in the...

I have a GBP for a client, their profile strength is "low" and the only missing item is to "Add photos of your work". After I upload photos though, the profile strength does not increase and it still says I need to "Add photos of your work". Google support is absolutely useless and just says...

It happened to me as well a month ago. I did not use the negative extortion reporting tool. All I did was go into the reviews manager and report each review as spam. 3 days later all 1 star reviews + the whatsapp 1 star review where removed.

I think he's saying for a businesses GBP usually people have the home page linked as the website. If the business is 15 minutes outside of Sacramento, CA (500k population) and have their business verified in Roseville, CA (80k population), is 5 minutes away from Rocklin, CA (70k population)...

from your site: So you are selling backlinks right? Instead of doing "backlink hacks", how come you aren't putting your clients sites on the sites you're selling backlinks to.

You sell backlinks. Why not put your clients sites on those sites you're selling backlinks to?

Not sure. This is a website managed by @JoyHawkins and her team at Sterling Sky :)

There's already hundreds of thousands of 'blog' posts on how to unclog a toilet, how to fix a leaky faucet, etc etc. Your content needs to be unique and add something of value to be indexed / have backlinks pointing to it so Google knows it's a good piece of content. Blog post #45 explaining...

No. I think it's too easy to spot an article written by AI once you've seen a bunch of articles written by AI. A lot of non-sense about nothing, a lot of the same sentence structure, a lot of the same words being used (delve, etc).

Different search intent. Someone in Dallas, TX searching for a plumber is going to get value out of the Dallas Plumber page. They're also never going to see your Austin, TX Plumber page. Obviously you should make certain parts unique, like reviews, etc. But there's only so many ways you can...