Recent content by James Watt

Yes, if you get the listing removed from the 3rd party sites that will filter down too, but GMB support on Twitter can take care of you too. It can take up to a week for them to respond, but they should be able to take care of you. Good luck!

Do you have admin access to the GMB account? Sometimes those links will be editable fields there now. If you check and it's not there, you'll need to content Google, or post on the GMB help forum and get a TC volunteer to escalate for you. You can contact Google here: Talk to a specialist...

To add to what everyone else said: SEO is (or should be) looked at the same as any other engineering discipline. As incredible as Google is, their ranking algorithms are still (for the most part) man-made, and so they're a whole lot simpler than weather, or stock market behavior. Gathering...

When you say you saw it in the server search results, you mean in your log files on your host? Is your question, just wondering why SEMRush was crawling your site? There's a huge number of bots out there, apparently over half of all internet traffic is from bots. Most friendly bots crawl your...

Hi Ana, Google will find things on their own, especially if Google Search Console has an up-to-date sitemap. If not, as long as the new page is being linked to from somewhere relevant, it'll get crawled eventually. It all gets crawled eventually.

Yep. GMB category makes a huge difference, I've definitely seen clients jump when changing to match top competitors. The flip side of that though, it means GMB listings can only target a narrow range of the full services many businesses offer. You'll have to decide with the client if it's worth...

Yeah, that pretty much matches what I've been seeing. Location is a hugely important factor now. That works out in your client's favor actually, it means that certain keywords are much more accessible for low-ranking businesses now on account of Google serving up hyper-local results. The...

Always happy to help. If you're sure citations are solid, move onto backlink building and building organic ranking. The site's ranking matters too, and it's currently down on page two. Citation work won't fix that. Brightlocal's got a pretty solid competitive citation research tool, you should...

Hey Shane, There's a number of reasons why Google would leave out results in the local finder. Possum appears to no longer be filtering related businesses at the same address in the US at least, so that's probably not your problem, but just in case UK's lagging on that front... what's the...

Here is last May's keynote from Google's CEO on the topic. As exciting as it is, I honestly don't think that keynote does justice to where they're really at, but it's a good intro at least from a layperson perspective.

There is no centroid anymore. Results literally change on a block-to-block and device-to-device basis now. Drive across the city and do a new search every quarter of a mile, you'll see what I mean. Even if you're using BrightLocal or something to do a search just for a certain city, you aren't...

Hi Caroline, I'm seeing both showing for company name + city as well.

No idea how much traction you'll get with it, but Google does have a submission form for paid link scams. No guarantees, but hey... worth a shot. You likely won't hear a response, though I've heard of people getting one. Your report is as likely to be used in algorithm development as it is to...

Linda's right, the new API capabilities means it's only a matter of time before some of the common platforms integrate post scheduling in with their other tools. I don't imagine it'll be long before some of the companies out there implement post scheduling. The API itself won't be much use to...

Hi Caroline, It's hard to say much without seeing the actual profiles. I'd be happy to take a look if you're comfortable posting name/address/phone numbers. When did you add the two new locations?