Recent content by James

Hi - I have a site I work with that provides language training in many locations, french lessons in leeds, spanish lessons in sheffield etc etc It should up for lots of locations but for some it does not show up in the maps at all on an initial search despite showing up at #1 in the natural...

I will submit it there and if nothing happens Ill post a screenshot on it. Ive put the site into ahrefs and a few other backlink checkers but they show very few backlinks. I put it into serped.net and it showed some backlinks but when I looked up those sites in ahrefs it did not have data on the...

Hi - there is a competitior who uses a virtual office (they are not even a competitior when you call the number it goes through to a office who distribute the calls) I reported them as a spam listing a few months ago but its still showing as google looking into it. I tried today changing the...

I used to use the trick where you view the source of a competitor listing and pick up the categories that they are using, Ive not done any optimizing for a while but Ive just gone back to looking at this again and was planning on doing the same, however, I am now seeing lots of categories...

Ive done quite well ranking businesses in the map pack but I have something I am considering trying and wanted to get some insight before hand. All the businesses I have ranked have been what I would call proper businesses where the customer goes to the place of business so think of a tattoo...

I know the full list is probably impossible to get hold of but what is in the post that you linked to has given me the info I needed to press on with what I was after thanks!

Hi - its been a while. I wondered if anyone had seen a list of businesses that might trigger a map when searched with a location? Solicitors london accountant london Those would both trigger the maps so my list so far is solicitors and accountants. Obviously I can think of loads more but...

Hi - when you have tried to report a spam listing on the google my business forum as you have suggested edits but they have come back as not approved one of the things you need to do is provide a link to the listing. I wanted to get some clarity on this, obviously I know what a link is but are...

Re: tattoos! Thanks again - really useful insight, I think I will do this.... do you know if there is a criteria for what I should flag, for example would the above three examples count as spammy and can I get in trouble for flagging things like that? For example if I flagged the above three...

Re: tattoos! Edit - okay I copied and pasted the URLs in my original post and it made them all into hyperlinks so I edited them out This is really interesting, I might be late to the party picking this up but every city I look at seems to have these. Im basically studying the local thing in...

Hi - while Im on a roll and my local listing is moving up a little I wanted to keep my momentum and plan to keep working on it. Somthing I wanted to check with the experts here is this. I used a citation building service some time ago and the guy did seem to make me a lot of good quality...

Re: tattoos! thanks - I will leave it in their hands for now as we are nowhere near top 3 and have reported it. If it gets to the point where its keeping us out of the top pack we will post and link as suggested. Some people like this seem to have a forumla that they have cracked that enables...

Re: tattoos! Thanks this is really interesting, I have added the wording to our H1s too now. I wasnt getting that note that says that they mention laser tattoo removal which you are. Yes the 1st and 3rd one are annoying me, that same person with that same address are all over with different...

Re: tattoos! I thought that too, it was one of the 1st things I did but the sites ranking at the top are all just a few pages and shockingly bad content (think frontpage 2002) and terrible design. They are also really small sites. I think the guys are the top have a trick that they use to get...

Re: tattoos! There are so to speak but none of these methods work, they are total snake oil but dont get me ranting about tattoo removal creams and the like or we will be here all day! Okay, try these searches: Tattoo removal glasgow glasgow tattoo removal laser tattoo removal glasgow...