Recent content by Joe Goldstein

Yeah, I generally wouldn't worry about that, but if you are, link to South Melbourne Market's page from somewhere else. I mean, other than the one in your original post. :)

Google hasn't put an explicit cap on the number of city pages. You'll see diminishing returns before you see any kind of penalty, so we usually build them out as part of our ongoing campaigns. Build a page or two, wait for them to rank, then build one or two more. Larger sites with bigger link...

Same. Our clients have responded really well to that service in particular. :)

I'm sure there is some diminishing return to uploading all of those, but it also shouldn't take that long to actually do, and it's just one more place where you can crush the competition. At the very least it could make a good experiment. Just make sure you're tracking your GMB website URL.

I just got that notification too, but it's not a new feature by any stretch. https://mashable.com/2017/02/13/google-maps-lists/

You should definitely balance them out between barnacle SEO and optimizing the individual websites. Some people are always going to go directly to Yelp, and you should be there when they do. And other people are going to avoid it like the plague and go to the first SMB website instead, so you...

Larger sites like those can beat you when it comes to authority, but you can beat them when it comes to relevancy. The first thing I would do is to try to get a couple of locally-relevant links. The local chamber of commerce, local charities or event sponsorships, and other local businesses are...

Good call, but I already took care of their spammy competitors a while ago and did another sweep when they lost rank. In the local results, they mostly just need to catch up on reviews (working on that...) My bigger concern is what happened to their organic rankings. There are a couple...

Thanks for moving the thread, Joy. The industry is water damage restoration, so the SERP changes pretty regularly. Ahrefs' historical ranking data doesn't match up at all with our rank tracker, so that doesn't help either. From what I can piece together, one EMD competitor and one serious...

Hey all - on March 27th, one of the sites I work with had some very dramatic rank gains and losses. Long story short, several of their money terms plummeted overnight (from top 3 to page 2) while their GMB lost a little visibility. On the same date, several of their supporting keywords shot up...

We had a similar issue on one of our sites. The page drives over 5k a month in organic traffic, but the traffic is completely unqualified for the business. Instead of taking it down or trying to re-qualify the traffic, I'm looking for an affiliate partner that would find the current traffic...