Recent content by Conor Treacy

We need more of this! I seem to recall a few years ago that there was a massive campaign against reviewers, and the FTC was going after people posting fake reviews. I can't remember the details on that, but there was something from just the reviewer end of things.

Yeah, the address is on the GBP and includes the suite number. The links from their websites all have the suite number too - but for whatever reason, when you click for directions, it seems to just drop the suite and link to the building itself :( I did find something earlier today, that the...

Nofollow is perfectly fine. As much as people say "always get dofollow" you don't want it all to be lobsided. nofollow still has value. Glad to hear that you made progress and they made the changes. Big win for you!

Curious if anyone has run into this specific GBP/maps issue with multi-tenant plaza buildings. Client is a brick-and-mortar jewelry repair/store located in a retail plaza with ~15 businesses sharing the same street address, differentiated only by suite numbers. Example: Business A = 123 Main...

I wouldn't think "secret" when I think of backlinks; however, when I think of "internal links," it's almost like that is a secret, as it seems nobody knows they should do it - and that's a big deal.

As @fisicx mentioned, check the infrastructure. I can tell you without a doubt that moving a client from GoDaddy to SiteGround makes a huge impact in performance and speed and that just doing the move has affected organic rankings. I haven't seen it affect local rankings as such. The...

Use their contact form to make contact, and failing that, call them and ask for a contact email address so you can chat with someone. Depending how messy things are, you'll want to make sure the conversation is via email so you have documented proof. We've had our info listed with competitors...

I am a ChatGPT guy - rarely use anything else. I pay the $20/month and do nearly all our code help inside of ChatGPT. Plugin help and troubleshooting, reviewing logs, heck, even taxes, it did a pretty good job on stuff. Each of my projects/clients are split into folders and they're not allowed...

I keep forgetting Gemini exists. I used to use it for the notebook feature and determining cross linking between articles - but ChatGPT stated to do a better job and I never went back. I need to re-look at Gemini again, I know they're always improving.

Similar to @fisicx we take a lot of our hand audit information and notes, drop it into chatgpt, and then have it write up in plain English what is happening. We found that if we put in the prompt "the client has severe ADHD" or similar phrasing, then the breakdown is much easier to comprehend...

Very nice - will have to poke on this one too and see how it does. Certainly my PHP and node.js direction failed. I can get other details, just not the reviews. Still waiting on someone with the API to approve access for me.

So, went down a rabbit hole. I was able to get the API to return each of the business locations that we manage. I can select their info, etc., but the reviews return is NULL. It seems that the API doesn't actually let you pull the Reviews section - they keep that locked off until you request...

I was doing some playing around on that API, and it certainly seems like you can pull from there without too many issues (they limit 50 per pull, but you just need to paginate past it in code). The only big restrictions I see are that you would need to set up a Project in the API area and then...

Not not interested, just can't replicate whether logged in or incognito. What query did you use? Was it a "near me" or something else?

What's the plan? Ignore, or disavow? Does anyone disavow any more?