Recent content by Gesundheit

This makes a lot of sense. Thanks for sharing. Let me dive a little bit more though, since I want to be sure we're not bending rules here: our listings use a common phone line that goes to our call/scheduling center; would that be an issue if we changed from an SAB to a brick and mortar...

My gut tells me this might be a bad idea, but I'm really not sure. Our company is a SAB, currently not listing our address on GBP or location pages. We operate in roughly 10 markets right now. Apart from some hiccups, our GBP strategy appears to work as expected. Our competitors in general...

I'm neither clairvoyant nor an expert on this matter, but my guess is that BAM local may be one of the few existing SEO niches that may continue to do well on an AI-powered SERP. Integration of maps will likely persist and will probably be integrated into an AI response. That kind of data...

How do you suspect they were able to get that verified? It looks like that address may be an assisted living facility or something similar. You don't suppose they had their dear old aunt Edna do a video verification call?

Thanks Jason, I love reading these every year.

I agree that you should be wary of losing verification if you make that change. Does your client actually have a BaM location where customers are served (ie a building), or is the location where he does business just a pick up spot (ie they like to pick up customers at a specific dock)? If...

SEO Roundtable just posted an interaction with John Mueller this morning that I think really lays all of this to rest (at least for me!). https://www.seroundtable.com/google-embedding-local-reviews-seo-34945.html

My gut tells me that y'all are correct regarding approval from the reviewer. My remaining question: what does this mean for schema markup of aggregated reviews? If I have 50 reviews on my GBP averaging to a 4.5/5 rating, can I put 4.5 stars on my landing page and mark that up accordingly? (To...

Thanks Colan, I appreciate this. What you're saying makes sense. To be clear, what is your recommendation on linking a GBP to market-specific landing pages? When the GBP-to-Location Page is 1:1, the answer is clear; but what about when it's 1:3? (Ex A single GBP represents 3 different Location...

I was considering doing this as well but was informed by a colleague that it is against Google's TOS to repost review content. I had presumed that it was normal to copy/paste reviews and list aggregate star ratings, and then use schema to markup that rating. Based on section 2a of this doc, am...

Our business is an SAB with multiple locations across the US, and we're expanding into new markets in the NE. We have citations/GBPs set up for each market, based on and verified at the location of our warehouses, which are our only physical addresses, although we don't do business at them. The...

I suspect that's the case as well. Do you think that this could be resolved over time by brand building, link building, etc.?

Hey y'all! I've been reading for a while but first post. Hope you'll keep me around after this - it's a doozy, but I'll try to be succinct as I can. We operate multiple SABs in the window installation market in several markets in the US. We've had persistent problems with our GBPs not showing...