Recent content by Broland

Good info above already. Also, Bing has /local on their robots.txt so listings don't index with Google and most likely aren't used at all as any source of data. Using some unique descriptions, updates and optimizations is great for local SEO, but best on sites with more value like Yellowpages...

Dataminer.io will do the trick. If you are doing local searches from a different city then you might want to use something like isearchfrom.com to get the target city's uule string and append that to the search URL to ensure more accurate results. (It's the long string in the URL that starts...

This is quite relevant to my interests... because it can provide more insight into how Google identifies and processes biz info. There are a lot of ways that Google finds and processes business data. For example they have a patent about updating online business listings using information like a...

Hey, sorry I did not see this sooner.. I may have saved you some time/money. I just haven't been around much but happened across this now while looking for something else. Anyways, looks like you've made some progress, but I'm fairly certain you have a -5 penalty. I don't believe your problem...

Yea I don't think there is a way to do this anymore. More info that might help here: Solved: Merge Multiple Brand Accounts - The Google Advertiser Community - 1133831

I can rank #1 on Google within 3 days using a new website with 0 backlinks for the following search term: hebotoadbillslate Or millions of others... If you want to rank for: lawyer nyc - well that's a different story. Yes you can rank with no backlinks, but it is all completely relative...

Seeing some more weird stuff with Google Maps results, seems maybe they are rolling out more updates.. Businesses on the left sidebar no longer displaying the building number: Some I've seen have a mix like this one, 209 NYC Dental still has the building number there: This seems like...

Some important updated information on this. For a few various reasons (only some that I can share) this seems like it could actually be a type of spam filter... but I'm also still not convinced it is not a bug. If it is a type of spam filter then I suppose we have found a sort of updated...

If you have a business that seems to have disappeared from Google maps results with the recent update try zooming in or out once on the map to reload the results and see if it reappears. Here’s the story… A buddy who I’ve done some SEO with brought this to my attention while he was trying to...

The PO Box addresses, even those that give you an actual street address, are known to not work for verifying a business on Google. I'm fairly certain they have a sort of blacklist of pretty much all of them. Of course there is only one true way to really find out for your specific case and that...

Re: Google My Business Local Spam Filter: Per Google patent & Slawski article July 4 If you read this patent (or Bill’s post about it), this isn’t really about getting a local business profile verified and approved on G+ at all (i.e. getting a verification postcard sent). This patent is about...

Yea, Yahoo gets data from Yellowpages, (also Expressupdate and Yelp). So make sure your info is correct on those. For Expressupdate you need to search with the phone number, not the business name. For Yellowpages if it is a listing you can't claim you can call support and get help and then that...

Sounds like there is a G+ business page, maybe it is just not claimed any longer. Do a search on Google using: site:Plus.google.com (business phone) You should be able to find the page that way and see if claimed, then claim it if it is not.

Some more info that might be helpful: I have used the bulk verification for service businesses. They are just supposed to have regular hours and see customers. So it can depend on the business. You won't be able to hide address or set service areas with bulk verification though. From this...

Oh yea it looks like if you are logged in to Google you won't see the red G+ that links to the profile page.