Recent content by GabrielNwatarali

I've been using Bright Local and no complaints. Make sure you pay the extra fee to check for duplicates and they are accurate in my experience. I think you can also leave notes or email them to alert the team that everything is for updates.

Just tested Knowem.com. Now considering using their service. Nice share and thank you.

Nice. First time hearing about Factual. This is useful, thanks.

Agreed. Typically, Google would treat the address like they do with a Mall location that has many businesses in it.

Ah, thank you for the heads up. Good opportunity to reread their guidelines.

Just saw this update. That's great!

Hi Chris, The patient is obviously very upset. I suggest contacting Google My Business via email regarding the situation and they'll remove the other reviews. You'll probably get a quicker response via email. Also, I would have the company respond only to the relevant review - the location...

Awesome find man! I didn't even notice it but I found that less is better because of mobile. Ben's 80 character 'sweet spot' is spot on since Google cuts off some of the text. This way, you can get your message across. Text seems to cut off at 96 characters or after 16 words.

Ah, you know what, I think I was accessing information that I got from reading this a while back and couldn't remember it well. It still needs further evidence though: Google Giving Less Weight to Reviews of Places You Stop Visiting? - SEO by the Sea

I feel that at this point, it's better to focus efforts on helping their customers leave more reviews for them. This way, you'll start getting more positive reviews in, and that will drive the negative review down or reduce it's impact significantly. Also, I think that Google filed a patent some...

Well, it's a good discussion and I especially thought that the idea of expanding beyond SEO to offering more things like responding to quotes, analyzing product demand and so on is great. But I caution it... I feel that there's still a ton of value in local SEO and SEO in general. While...

You can do it. Usually, if you have it phrased as hisname.com instead of wwwHisName, you'll be fine. :) Or you can even just remove the extension and just place HisName

Yes, I would create profiles for each location and for future locations too. But make sure that once the new profiles are created, you solicit reviews from customers of those locations. Work something out with the team in each location to gather some feedback so that you can rank in the map...