Recent content by Joey Abna

Turns out it was a Soci issue. Waiting on engineers to diagnose the cause and the fix.

We have made it to Level 3 support.

Yes, ticket created. Crickets today, Sunday I suppose.

The last week we have had some odd random changes to Google Business Profiles where the locations Name is changed as well as website url, phone number, hours and description deleted from their profiles. The only clue is that all of the effected profiles are using Soci for social media posting...

Geeze it never ceases to amaze me the creativity of the rule breakers.

Thanks @rustybrick it is now working as intended. Got them all removed.

In our case the numbers are the same as the GBP main number that is a traditional "POTS" phone line.

Yes, we had three restaurant locations have these added by Google. Having trouble getting them removed as the remove button doesn't work.

Claude is my Go To and is the only llm I have actually paid for access. I am using Gemini more than ChatGPT now but most of that usage is simple tasks or one offs I don't want in my Claude memory and history at this point. I am also finding myself switching to Gemini vs traditional Google...

My favorite use so far is downloading a csv file from Google Search Console and uploading that to ai and asking it to analyze the file looking for anomalies and make recommendations for topical clusters, internal linking and look for content gaps we may have overlooked.

After a few months would love to see a case study on this.

I haven't noticed any performance improvements by culling old photos from a profile. I have seen a few cases where photos that were no longer relevant caused some customer satisfaction issues. An example would be a menu item that is no longer made the same way or a remodel has occurred since a...

Posts don't effect ranking and don't receive much engagement at all anymore. They are more engaging for restraunts coffee shops etc when you post offers. I would still do them but keep them commercially focused. Like others have said don't just repost your typical social media content, keep it...

It felt like a test since I was only seeing it on one browser/device. Based on the consensus comments this is another reason to keep an eye on what happens across the pond to see what might be coming to the USA. Yep, I am still in Texas.

Ran across an unusual serp layout after clicking More Businesses from the usual Local 3-Pack results. Instead of getting the customer Places Finder layout I got this thing. I am only getting this view in one particular browser and account. So, I am assuming I am in a test group.