Recent content by Dave

I went back and looked at our stats over a longish period with about 19,000 page views: About Us Page 719 visits Testimonials Page 42 visits. BTW: We have about as prominent testimonial as we can find on two pages including the testimonial page, including one page where it might have impact...

I'll be very specific. First I came back to this discussion via a link from what I found to be an excellent realistic and common sense article by Phil Rozek about review management tools. It referenced this discussion. 2. We have businesses that have the nature and good fortune to...

I was referred back to this discussion via a comment on Phil Rozek's excellent blog piece about reviews/review management services. Testimonials roughly equivalent to nice words by mom. Ha ha. I more or less agree. Are they valuable in conjunction with a great review process as suggested...

I'm accumulating evidence on faked reviews. I've seen 2 smb's add respectively about 15-200+ reviews in the last several months. The 2 are on opposite ends of the nation. Many reviewer profiles review both smb's. There are a healthy additional volume of smb's that have received reviews from...

From what I read in Mike's post these aren't being indexed now, which means they shouldn't show in serps. That is my understanding of this new feature.

We have posts showing in both desktop and mobile. So far we have yet to see any measurable impact. I came here to ASK THE SAME QUESTION you asked above!!! How's it working out? Any impact yet??? etc. (great minds think alike ;) My quick reaction is that on first view we'll have to...

Linda: I agree. Many of the gems are in the comments. I'm still working through them. Cripes: In the responses to the very first question, Lisa Kolb of Acorn through out a "mind blower" from my perspective. She knows the hospitality industry and more specifically B&B's. She referenced...

That is interesting. I'm a long time whiner complainer about data that google presents in the GMB insights and all the other data its presented in previous names before GMB. Regardless, this information is unique, different and you can't check it anywhere else. I'm curious for those that show...

Re: Google My Business Local Spam Filter: Per Google patent & Slawski article July 4 As google does things of this nature, it is incredibly difficult to deal with. Google penalizes you, but there is no communication and no way to cure. Reminds me of dictatorships. ...and frankly I didn't...

Re: Google My Business Local Spam Filter: Per Google patent & Slawski article July 4 That might be. I spoke with Bill. We've interacted on many years. After describing the 3 incidents he thought the filter might have hit these 3 totally different businesses. Can't be sure. Theoretically...

Re: Google My Business Local Spam Filter: Per Google patent & Slawski article July 4 Thanks Linda. Its what I figured with all the TC's here. Great suggestions!!!!!!:D

Re: Google My Business Local Spam Filter: Per Google patent & Slawski article July 4 The problem in all 3 cases is that requests go into GMB and a card never shows. Phone customer service has been tremendously weak. 2 of the businesses spent untold hours back and forth on the phone. The...

Has an article published by Bill Slawski on a google patent on a Local Spam Filter been discussed. The title of Bill's article, published on July 4 this year; and the actual patent title, released on June 21, 2016 are really misleading: This is ALL about a Local Spam filter that might be...

Dan: The two verticals are as different as night and day. I don't have a figure on this, and frankly it might have been going on for a long time, but I'm getting those responses on the phone now in both cases. Specifically I'm asking phone leads if they saw "some content"...really anything...

Having read Cody's comments above, having read the report, and having been working on links for over a decade......and being the smb('s) which means talking to the leads and the customers I have to add one thing: We are getting more contacts....both by phone and by form...wherein the...