Recent content by Joey Abna

I am going to make an assumption here. I am assuming you are looking at one query or a few queries in Local Falcon. Do those queries typically have the most search volume? If that is the case are you parsing the data in GSC with that same query or queries? Keep in mind the data and the methods...

Sometimes you can find a small retail or office space in a market at a great monthly rate. Near my market a home services company rented an old cookie shop in a high traffic area for not much more than an office building. Now they show up in the map pack in the new market. Plus, the store front...

I was surprised when I searched and your client was the roofer that showed for this location. I found more than 3 roofers in the building plus several general contractors and remodelers. I would give up on this location and move.

Back in the day when I was in the car biz we would create a page for new models. Then we would take one of the all new models to say Starbucks or other local shopping center. We would have our videographer interview people about their thoughts and impressions about the new model. We also did it...

@brentnau And sometimes when you have that set up the client ends up using that url and phone number on all kinds of things totally messing up the attribution. 🤦🏻‍♂️

This is always a fun debate. Traditional drives awareness which can increase brand name search and for a local business could mean more organic website traffic. Does brand search factor into the algo? Maybe, maybe not reminds me of debate in high school, you could argue either side and win the...

We have a client that had one of their locations GBP profile just sitting out their unclaimed for at least a couple of years. They claimed the profile and it was immediately suspended. It is a Soft Suspension still showing in search. Before appealing the suspension we need to update the...

You really have to spend some time parsing out the numbers in GSC looking at them in different ways. Compare them from the time where you see a change to the previous period of the same length. When you do this look at the pages and the queries. I once had a client call me freaking out because...

Always preferential to have an independent site but for some small businesses the Google sites work just fine especially if most of their business is coming from the Local Pack anyway. I don't see a problem with keeping both. I have heard arguments about the Google site competing with the...

Occasionally I get emails letting me know how many views one of my accepted suggested edits has had. I hadn't noticed them posted like this before. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks Conor, that is the link I was using. Thank you for responding.

Recently logging into Bing Webmaster Tools has been problematic. I can get to the opening screen with the list of websites. But, If I try to drill into the different areas of a websites data I get dumped to a 500 error page like the screenshot below. It's been buggy for several weeks but after a...

I have only seen one case where this type of arrangement worked without issues. I have seen several cases where this caused problems with verification, filtering and in the end multiple suspensions. To me it is not worth the increased risk.

I have wondered about this as well. Haven't heard anyone talking about link penalties much anymore. Makes me wonder if Google just ignores these links that would normally generate a penalty. That way they keep us in the dark not knowing.

I can't think of any clients I have worked with that moved from showing the address to hiding the address that did not lose rankings/exposure. I see SABs (with hidden addresses) in the search results but most listings doing well have addresses showing. It's frustrating following the rules and...