Recent content by dannanelli

This is a really good question and I can see you’re concerned with it looking spammy. It is a best practice to include the location name in the page title, meta description, headings, and body content for all service pages that you’d like to rank in that location. If you don’t add the location...

Woo hoo! This is going to be fun. :-)

I currently use Agency Analytics for my local SEO reports. However, their keyword tracker does not track organic and local pack results on Google.com separately. They allow you to either include the local pack or ignore it but you can't choose to track both. Let me explain how this works with...

Hi Ryan, Have you had a chance to read Phil’s guide here? It has a ton of ideas! http://www.localvisibilitysystem.com/25-principles-of-building-effective-city-pages-for-local-seo

Hi there, This is a great question. This is common and I see this a lot. I’ve also wondered the same thing. My tip is to make sure the site is completely optimized first (technical, content, on-page, etc.) as well as their Google My Business listing. If you don’t notice improvements after all...

Hi Jacky, Claiming citations manually is a great idea. But if you have over 100 locations then considering outsourcing or using an automated tool is a good idea. Whitespark has a great citation service. You may only have to use them one time and may only need to use them again if a client...

Wow, this is great! Thank you for sharing.

I prefer CallRail over Call Tracking Metrics. It’s way easier to setup multiple tracking numbers. Also, the way the CTM event data is sent into Google Analytics seems wonky to me. The way CallRail sends event data into Google Analytics is easy to view and seems designed to work with Google’s...

Hi Travis, That is a very frustrating situation. In regards to your question "Is there a resource here or anywhere online that provides CURRENT instructions on how to update listings on various directories?", yes there are many resources out there. I collaborated with some other local SEOs and...

Cherie, those were great insights! Thank you!

Hi Rich, You can manually check on Factual. Click on this link and search for the business. https://places.factual.com/data/t/places

Hi Kristi, Do you think these individual practitioner pages are beneficial for SEO and Local SEO? They can be but I have heard people complain that they can dilute the rankings for the main practice listing. It depends on how you structure the categories across all listings I believe. Are...

I've yet to find it but would love to know if someone else has seen it.

Hi Paul, 1) I don’t think so. I don’t know of any way. I’ve contacted Yelp about this before and they basically said “too bad”. 2) Increasing review volume in general should help. You can try the Find a Friend strategy and the query string strategy listed here: Is There Anything You Can DO to...

I had talked to David Deering a while back about this. Here is what he had to say about it last year: "Google doesn’t really like that. This would create that same review markup on several pages, which in turn might get you penalized because that would go against Google’s guidelines. Ideally...