Recent content by Joey Abna

GBP Dashboard is lagging but I ran through a dozen sites in GSC and GA4 and traffic patterns are pretty normal there. One business has a new GBP/Location and that pattern shows an uptick in Impressions and Traffic which I would expect to see adding a new market.

Now that you mention it I don't recall seeing anything but review justifications lately.

Great question @keyserholiday going back and looking at some of these. Looking at several of them I think it might be the same person posting on the locations.

We manage a chain with 15 locations and we started getting the questions about 2-weeks ago. Definitely more frequent than at any other period. It's interesting these questions have all been well formatted and tend to revolve around vegan options, accessibility, parking and special offers. In the...

There has been several weird things about managing GBP profiles the last couple of weeks. First it was Posts, then it started with Q&A too. Today the overall functionality is slow to respond. For example when you go to edit Services this morning there is a delay then it opens and then behind the...

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.