Recent content by ElizabethRule

Yep, I would not add any secondary categories. Stick to just those as the primary categories. You essentially do not want any category overlap between the practitioner listings and the main listing or the dental hygienist listing. Again yes, I would not add emergency or pediatric to the main...

Such a pain!!! But if it works, it works, and it might be worth all the extra hassle if the reviews stick after.

No idea, gonna tag some API experts to see if they know. @noahlearner @dale-jepto

Your best bet is to reach out to support and ask them why the profile is still not live. It could be a glitch. Since it has been a week or so, have you gotten this fixed?

Google added "open hours" as a local ranking factor back in December 2023. https://www.sterlingsky.ca/google-confirmed-openness-update/ Have you noticed it has gotten even more prevalent recently?

I have been seeing a TON of reviews being removed for businesses lately that follow this pattern. Did this business end up getting the reviews posted again? Do they just have to wait, or did they contact support and get this fixed? I have a 50/50 success rate with Google support on these types...

Sometimes in major cities it can be a struggle to rank outside of a 1 mile radius. I think it depends more on how populated a city is and how many competitors are nearby, so it is not a US vs Europe thing but a populated city vs rural area thing.

Wow! Love this breakdown. Great news for all those business owners with multiple businesses at the same address.

Hey there! I think your strategy is well thought out, because it can get tricky doing practitioner listings for dental clinics. When you do practitioner listings for dental, you have to be very careful not to cannibalize the main listing using the "Dentist" category. "Emergency dentist" and...

Hey there, I have never even heard of OpenStreetMap before this, so I can't be much help on that front, but I would venture anything on OSM is likely ignored by Google. Google has spent a mountain of time and money on their own internal map system, and they will use that over everything. They...

Sterling Sky has long tested ways to improve rankings and traffic for pages that already exist on a site, and one of the most under-utilized ways we do this that works so well is adding a table of contents (TOC) or TL;DR to existing blog pages. For this one client we did it for, they saw an...

Yep, USA!

Sometimes all we can do is commiserate when it comes to Google! Happy to have a look though :)

Map spam like this can be very hard to prove and get removed, especially if the business does exist and they are just using a fraudulent address. What is the business listing in question? It would be helpful to have a look.

I just tried the Edit your Business Information tool for a business that had their website edit rejected. The tool did not kick me to the Appeal Tool. Instead, it funneled me to the Edit Rejection Appeal Form. It is possible there are different flows for different edits. Or perhaps Canada has...