Recent content by fisicx

Not really. Well optimised content, good internal linking and showing all the necessary trustmarks will suffice. There is a huge DIY chain in the UK called B&Q. Their domain name is diy.com. Nike, Apple, Amazon, McDonalds and thousands more don't have keywords in their business name.

Surely if people are clicking on your profile links you can already monetize those leads. EG: fix their roofs. Or are you saying you have too many leads for your roofers to cope with with work?

Are you sure about this? The primary ranking signal is still the page title. A good page title doesn't need and never has needed the business name. You put the business name in the meta description. People search for plumbers near me or plumbers in small town. Your snippet should match the...

Do you have some pages indexed but not all or have they all been dumped from the index?

But far less so in organic search. It was spammed to death some years back until Google caught up and dumped the lot.

No they don't. There is nothing preventing you creating umpteen sites all using the same contact details. They don't even need to be a registered business. Nothing they are doing could be classed as spam.

I have a friend who now just uses AI to create wordpress sites. The content isn't the best but because each one is focused on a very tight niche they rank well. Last week his latest new site got him three new clients within 24 hours. He can do this indefinitely. The domain names are cheap and he...

Not a lot. People have been doing this ever since the first search engines launched. Google might eventually catch up and penalise them but it's unlikely. Looking at the first site there isn't actually anything wrong with the site. And if it gets leads and the customers are happy why would...

Maybe because they outsource the work to some sausage factory who put in the minimal effort. Those that do take time to do the job properly reap the benefits. Just like anything webby. I have a client that used AI to do everything for him: website, profile, social media. Enquiries dropped off...

Suppose you do get a list of all these directories. How can you be sure they actually help? Too many directories are of such poor quality they can raise red flags at the Googleplex. Quality far outweighs quantity. An on site SEO often far outweighs citations.

Google takes a very holistic view of a website. Articles and posts can dilute the focus of a site if off topic. So you don't really want an article about video creation redirecting to the homepage if you don't do anything to do with videos anymore.

Do you mean organic search or the results in the map pack? The browser you use shouldn't make any difference. But you could do some tests in incognito mode. It's possible you are seeing YOUR business ranking higher because of previous searches but the other business is the one that is really on...

Anything? I can think of a whole raft of iffy sites that will get you listed that are the opposite of a citation. Maybe the criteria could be: Anything authoritative that shows up for a branded search for the business.

Google makes money from advertising and selling your data. They don't make money from GBP and Organic search (but they do from the sponsored results). Look at any number of news channel and entertainment websites and they are infested with adverts. So much so that it's almost impossible to...

IP address, your email address used for different accounts, your search history, SM activity. Google knows a lot about you. It connects everything together and will know your name, location, probably address, email and your business. Google will know you aren't the owner of the business profile.