Recent content by Conor Treacy

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?

3000 domains, or 3000 links. 3000 domains are definitely aggressive. 3000 links can happen just by adding links to the footer of a site, sometimes (or a forum signature). That said, I've never REALLY understood negative SEO campaigns - they nearly always have some form of positive impact until...

If their web designer is saying that installing a plugin for SEO would be a high cost, they need a new web developer! There is a cost to it - time to configure it - and then time to fill out the details on all the pages - but if you're contracted to do that, or an internal staff member, then...

Keep in mind that unique writing alone isn't the strategy we would take. While the 45 pages would be technically unique, they can still be redundant if they all solve the same problem for the same audience/user. Keep the idea of page count out of the main strategy as it can be redundant...

We actually just wrote an article on this last month, as we have been getting a few new clients that had really spammy tactics on their site that needed to be cleaned up. If you search Google for "doorway pages vs landing pages," you'll see the article (or click my signature and go to blogs)...

The contact form and the phone calls have picked up significantly with actual clients (not spam), so yes, I'd definitely say it was worth the effort. We're actually going through to figure out what other older articles we can remove or combine (these are ones that have driven minimal traffic in...

Well, it's been a month since I deleted hundreds of posts, and things are still going well on our end. You can see the before-and-after trend over the past 3 months in Search Console. I can't say that ALL the upswing is due to our changes, but we are certainly getting more REAL client...

Technically, it's the whole shebang! The guidelines say (paraphrased) that the name used must be the legal forward-facing name. So the copyright footers, invoices, vehicle wraps, signage, how you answer the phone, the logo on the shirt - they all must use the NEW name. They use terms such as...

No drop in our traffic at all, and a boost overall for traffic and clicks (with our latest articles excluded from the list). In the search console, if I compare the first 2 weeks of Feb vs Jan, we saw increases of 30% for clicks, 43% on impressions, and our average position increased by 24%...

In Google Search Console, is it saying that it was crawled and not indexed? Or something else? Any details when you use the 'inspect the URL' in search console? If you type just your domain into a Google search, does anything return? Try a site:domain.com also.

From what I've read over the years the internal links that point to error pages make Google continue to crawl them and reduce crawl efficiency. So even though you 404 or 410 a page, if there are still internal links to those dead pages, that continues to affect the crawling and how often Google...