Recent content by Dan Foland

I can't say for sure but citing the source is a best practice and in my opinion, makes the reviews more trustworthy.

I haven't seen any issues arise from this. Giving people the ID to add you to their business is the purpose of it.

If you're asking if you (as the business owner) are allowed to take reviews from your businesses website and post them as a review on GMB, then no. Only those individuals who left a review are allowed to add a review to GMB. You are however allowed to take a review from your website and post it...

@AndySimpson The same exact thing happened last time Google stopped displaying legitimate lawyers. Google continued to show spam listings that had artificial keywords in the business name. For example, the screenshot I've attached would have never happened previously. But since legit lawyers are...

Very well deserved!

Apparently Pubcon is the go-to conference. I've never been, but I was surprised at how big it was and how many well known SEO's go. I always thought Mozcon was the go-to event of the year, but my impression is that Pubcon has overtaken it.

All of my clients are seeing an impact. Fortunately, most of them are seeing nice gains, some are seeing an equal amount of positive and negative gains and some are seeing a loss in rankings. P.s. all of my clients are law firms/lawyers.

I'm wondering if this is for certain industries or not. We're seeing this a good amount in the legal space. Edits will immediately revert back, even when the change is obvious. Is this intentional on Google's part? Maybe for spam prone industries?

This looks great! As Phil mentioned the spam-fighting aspect is worth the price alone. I can't tell you how many times a client has been ranked 4th Google maps thus not being in the 3-pack only to see a spam listing rank ahead of them. Getting the spam listing removed exponentially increased...

While browsing Twitter last night I ran across the announcement from Jason Brown that Joy Hawkins is the new CEO at Local U! Congrats Joy! You're making big moves after acquiring the Local Search Forum and now this!

@Emily Brady Good idea! This is kind of what I was thinking too. We have many blogs that don't necessarily fit under one of our practice areas or they fit under multiple practice areas. So still having a central place for all blogs while displaying certain categories under each practice area...

I hesitated with putting the word silo in my post. While it would be silo-ish I would also link out to other areas of the website when applicable.

Thanks for the source, Joy! This is pretty much what I expected, though I would imagine it would lead to greater internal linking (if done right) since it would be treated the same as the other practice area content and not separate.

Hey all, I've been pondering testing this out but am curious if anyone has any thoughts. For example, let's say I'm working on a law firm's website who specializes in criminal defense. I've always had a /blog/ section that housed all of our blogs. But, what are your thoughts on having more...

The redressal form works OK in my experience. It certainly doesn't work for every listing I report, and it can take more than a month to see results. When filling out the form I try to be as detailed as possible and make a clear case so that the people evaluating the complaint don't have to do...