Recent content by HoosierBuff

HI All, I have a client that has an established business (like 40 years), with a ton of traffic. They bought out a competitor in an adjacent city (a year and a half ago), and changed the name, and created a new GBP. The new GBP already has 100's of reviews, and is fully fleshed out - yet, the...

Thanks Colan - I have added the awkward "Looking for a Roofer Near Me" text as an H2 to the home page, We will see what that does. The more I have researched it, for the searches I'm doing "Roofer near me" in Springfield, MO, the 3 local roofers that appear on the first page all seem to have a...

Does anyone have any insight into the traditional organic results for "near me" searches? I can't seem to discern what is driving some success for some sites and another others. For most sites, they will rank well in their home zip code for a near me search, but, you start to spread out in the...

I have a guy who is very deep in arrears now - like over 6 months, and is no longer returning calls, etc. I had chat gpt write up a note with a warning of impending legal action, but, that didn't work. What do you do after a client doesn't respond to warnings of legal action if they don't pay?

yeah, I nuked it, and found several others just like it. Crazy. and yet, my real clients go thru hoops to get verified, and this crap gets in.

The #2 result in Montgomery Alabama is a GMB profile - I clicked on it and saw this disclaimer: "Please note: Do not visit any address listed as we have no affiliation to this address. We do not have a facility in 48 Angels Ct Ste A21, Montgomery, AL 36109, rather we are a 24/7 helpline that...

I need to add this, because its important: The change in Near Me results is definitely occurring outside the map, and because of that, the loss of ranking is more acute in adjacent zip codes. Where I was able to at least rank a bit, often ranking around 20-40, for a "near me" in an adjacent...

I was running my monthly reports for clients, and I think it definitely ties with the core update. I have a financial advisor client, and it seems the "near me" would always bring up a number of localized organic results, but, now, after the map it's mostly national brands. I need to research...

has anyone noticed that "near me" search results have changed a bit recently? I don't have a ton of info, but, for a few sites, I have seen that the below the map results seemed to get much less local in nature for near me searches. Has anyone seen this?

Hi all, A question about a multi-location mental health clinic. This particular clinic has 4 locations, 3 "outpatient" clinics, and 1 inpatient clinics. Frequently, ambulances take people to outpatient clinic because people search by "clinic name", and when they are far enough away (like 2...

I don't think it would be that useful in driving actual new customers. You might get some validation, and some vanity metrics, but not much more. I think it's maybe something akin to blogging. You really can't make local dental related content for a dentist on tiktok, and if you did, it...

Yeah - the one thing I saw, it seems to be coming from people on IOS.

HI All, I have seen a new bug for a couple of clients this past month. For some clients I track their traffic by state (realizing it's imperfect data), just to understand it a bit better. At the end of June the data changed pretty significantly. . . suddenly there was a lot more traffic...

Hi All, I have been using Freshbooks for a long long time, and I have enjoyed some of the simplicity and other benefits. As the product has evolved, and they are trying to turn it into a full fledged accounting software, it no longer does the things I need easily (and I have changed too, we...

I have a hiking boot store client that has 3 locations, and a fairly good reputation, been around a long time, etc. I started work on getting their store to show up more often for local searches, and making sure that they show up as best they can in their local area. They are on a shopify...