Recent content by KSanders

We fired this client actually, but it worked out fine and all his local (at least top 50) match that listing, so he'll likely pop top 5 eventually if he gets someone to build him some links. One is an apartment location biz, the other is a moving company and there's a clear enough distinction...

I think "best verticals" is subjective. From a process standpoint, it's great to consult in a vertical, but you're running a branded process, nothing more. The number of "lawyer seo experts" who do okay local work and hit all niche legal sites is laughable. The things you test aren't...

I'm just calling the 3 nearby ads a full ad stack since I doubt they'll go beyond 3. So it's 3 of the nearby business ads, then map, then 3 local listings, then organic. Main issue is how much the ads look like map listings ?\_(ツ)_/?

I'm seeing a full stack of nearby business ads now for dentist and dentists, as well as chiropractors. Chiropractor is still only displaying one ad for me at the moment. Have updated on post and included here as well.

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I think firms only doing local/maps will have a harder time retaining clients, especially those who aren't experienced with building lots of links in the current ecosystem and aren't comfortable playing in grayer areas, like emds/pmds and business listing manipulation.

The 3 pack constrains the view and makes it easier to roll them into ad units :cool:

This is going to hurt a lot of local players. I also expect in many verticals--particularly home services--these will roll into ad units. As thumbtack continues to crawl further up droves of local terms, visibility in local SERPs will be largely pay to play. Take another look at this lovely...

Thanks. The postal worker just drops mail off in the front office, although if they were to actually put up a Suite B sign, I'm sure he'd go in the back as well. We're doing Suite B and seeing what happens. I don't see much issue with this. Thanks for the feedback.

I haven't done the "suite B" move in quite a while, so I'm wondering if this still works? Have a client that does apartment locating and moving out of the same building. Apt. locating in the front, moving in the back, but one door. Ethically, I don't think it's any issue but I'm unsure of the...

An employee at an existing client has a side wedding photo/video biz. Pretty straight forward campaign, but they don't want their address--which is their home--on the website once it ranks, as they have photo/video/audio equipment and are concerned about getting burglarized. This is a relatively...

Her name, old address, old phone. She moved into a new office address w/new phone, he stayed with old address and old phone. She was advertising in the phone book years ago, which is where most of these appear to come from, since none were manually built. He was getting her overflow and some...

Hi all, My aunt is a well-known divorce attorney in Oregon and has been doing very well on reputation alone for years, but asked me for help since her number of clients have dropped off recently. Glaring issue is a large number of citations (81 via a quick whitespark search) have her name...