Recent content by Elliot

How important is it to have the same number in your GMB and citations as on your website? Our main phone number in our header will be different than whats listed in our profile in order to track our calls, should our GMB number be in the NAP in our footer? What's best practice?

I'm working with a client in the home services industry who has several locations nationwide, as far east as Georgia and as far west as Utah. I would say there are about 4-5 main keywords in this niche (tree service industry) that could have location modifiers with it. After investigating...

Update: SUCCESS. Google finally has merged my listing and I've retained my ranking. This has happened less than 4 hours ago and my (five) reviews aren't showing up with a star rating yet, but it's awesome to see the battle is finished. Funnily enough, when I mentioned 411locals.com the rep...

Exactly what I'm thinking, but then again I can't imagine that they adhere to any other methodology than burn & churn and in this case it's a somewhat uncompetitive market.

Thanks so much both of you! Right now we're signing back up with the company for at least a month so we don't jeopardize our listing, but over the next week or so I'm going to gather all the documentation I need to have a solid case to present to Google then reach out to them.

Thank you so much for all the advice everyone! I'm in the UK at the moment but I'm going to give them a ring at 8 PST. The company im fighting against is 411locals, which after researching them a bit is apparantly a notoriously awful company to deal with, but still quite popular. I'll give...

Thanks for the info guys! What the company is claiming now is that since they changed the name of a listing to a generic name (even though it still has all the old reviews) they're under no obligation to return it to us since they're no longer optimising it. I called support but they said we...

I'm trying to help a client who was paying a monthly fee to have a website + "optimization" for their business. We have since transferred the domain out of the 3rd party's hands and into the clients. But now the company is refusing to give us the access to our property. They have since changed...

Thanks for the responses guys! I think we'll work something out with potentially porting the number to a virtual provider or something similar, changing the number seems like more trouble than it's worth.

I have a client with a ranking property (1-3, depending on the query for the service) who has their cell phone as their listed contact number for their listing. Their entire web presence (hosting, website, and Google account) is currently managed by a 3rd party company who I believe also owns...

I suppose the only "proof" I have is that I see synonymous terms bolded in the SERP as if it was the keyword I'm searching for. I can type in tree trimming charlottesville va and in the results you can see it pulls results "tree service" or "tree pruning". My fear is that I'll be wasting my...

Hi everyone, I'm working on my father's company website. I'm trying to rank in fairly noncompetitive suburbs for a tree service. In this case, is it the best idea to build one city landing page to rank for my 3 main keywords (in this case they are city name tree service, city name tree removal...

Certainly makes sense, I really just wanted to make sure I wasn't being devalued because I attempted to place my service area in the center of town.

Thanks for the input Joy. I guess this just means about half my competitors are still "accepting customers" at their location.

I want to simultaneously thank in advance for help, and also ask for forgiveness for probably asking basic questions, but I can't seem to get a clear answer from what I've read. I'm trying to rank my father's tree service consulting company (Tree Service Nashville ? The Tree Service Guru) for...