Recent content by BrendanT

We use mysiteauditor, 95% of the stuff that goes through it is completely garbage from a sales perspective but it's generated about 3 new clients and by the end of the year $10k from it so not bad for ~500$ spend on it....it's good as a lead magnet type thing, pretty ordinary as an audit tool...

Had this problem recently, uploading to Photosphere will update the streetview listing especially if there isn't one right now. Image went live within 24 hours

So question about Apple Maps Connect. We don't have a good way to manage it across the board. Gmaps is easy, if we need to we setup a Gmail account for the client that becomes the owner of the listing and then share out manager access to where we need to. As far as I can see Apple has no...

Agree 1000% Security is not an all or nothing game, it's a sum of a bunch of parts. It's more like building a wall, the more bricks you have the bigger and better the wall is. HTTPS is just another brick in the wall. Often security is more about not being the weakest link vs being the...

From a biz perspective its an easy speed win, with https and cloudflare you get SPDY and http2 support, quite a big speed win. Encryption is becoming increasingly important and there is an inbuilt expectation that the web is secure. EG 10 years ago encryption on email protocols (smtp, pop3...

Seems to me a lot of overthinking the switch to SSL. It's quite simple - bonus tip, use Cloudflare with your site and you'll get the speed benefits. From what we've seen, often the SEO benefit (or problems with SSL) are related to the switchover fixing or causing duplicate URLs/canonical...

A cheap fix is to use cloudflare and their inbuilt SSL - its not true https, traffic is only secure for party of the journey but Google currently sees it as SSL. We changed 3 sites including our own to SSL as a test and it made zero different until about 3ish months ago where all three suddenly...

I've had this a couple of times lately and have called support and got it fixed. One of them I couldn't add a street number and the other I couldn't add the county and postcode to a US listing. Every time I hit save it stuck for a few minutes and then when I went back to the listing it showed a...

Ive seen weird behaviour with places and redirects - eg one of our clients changed biz names, we forwarded the old domain to the new when we built the site. Fast forward 2 years later, a places listed was autogenerated for the old business using the old business address and old domain and caused...

I have seen them rewriting them more lately even for non brand searches, for the clients I saw this happening for the title tag was too long and slightly spammy

Figured that was the case. I've had 2 calls with support and both assured me its gone but 2 weeks after both it still sits there hence taking action myself. Its not actually a dupe of the business name, its just a name of a department inside the company which should have never been given a...

Ok, so instead of deleting the second dupe (dupe of the dupe) I've de-optoed it, removing phone and web address (after doing telephone verify). This dupe was definitely being used as the authority listening over the genuine biz listing as it seemed tied to the homepage and the genuine listing...

Gah...so we claimed the dupe with the wrong name and deleted the page, yay! But in the process found another dupe of the dupe with a different plus page ID....turns out the customer decided to do a bit of their own SEO work, seriously WTF! Running through the same process again with the dupe...

Still ongoing with this one....really hit and miss with Google support. There is a dupe with a different name but same address and phone number. Last time I spoke with Google they said they deleted it and couldn't see it any more in their system but its still showing up for me. Now the listing...

Honestly, nothing tangible. The business already dominates local completely for the target terms so no way to gauge the impact from a local SEO perspective. The homepage video has had much more impact. My feeling is that it would only really tangibly (is that a word?) benefit businesses that...