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I'm helping a friend out with his local business. He has a very healthy GMB profile - good number of reviews, nicely mapped location, constantly updated GMB profile, etc. Ideally, he should be ranking at least in the top 2-3 in the local box. The only problem is that for his search term (say...

This is kind of weird; at least for me since I have never encountered this. I am working with a local business client and the search queries for their industry seems to be showing the knowledge graph of one of the competitors rather than the top GMB listings in the local search box. To explain...

Subdomains are a good idea when you are offering two or more things independently. For example, Google is a search engine that also offers email (gmail) and storage (Google Drive). In such a case, you have separate subdomains to indicate that they are indeed separate 'domains'. But in your...

I doubt there will ever be an algorithm so robust to weed away even the most basic fake review schemes. What stops an agency or business owner from finding one or two people from your city on Craigslist each week and paying them a few bucks to log in and post a review. What kind of algorithm...

I doubt this is even a factor Google takes into account. As long as you maintain consistency, you should be fine.

[/COLOR]I guess it depends on what your niche is. The lack of a brand name also means you earn more competition than you actually have. If iPhone was named 'Best Smartphone', they not only have Google and Microsoft to fight, but also my lowly tech blog to compete against for space for their main...

What's the latest here? I checked for one site that I do not filter and out of 630 sessions since March, only 10 sessions are from genuine sources.

Wondering if anybody here has any good strategies to increase the number of customer reviews on Google/Yelp, etc. Many of the clients I work with are happy with just their phone ringing with little to no work on gathering client details like phone number or email (to reach out to). What...

If you are using this ebook as a lead magnet, you must realize that there exist a lot of people who "subscribe" and then unsubscribe just to get access to an ebook. Now if what you offer is real high quality, then the percentage of people who unsubscribe is going to be very much on the low side...

I'm curious to know how this has changed over time? How long does it typically take to rank brand new clients these days?

I have been taking up local SEO clients on and off over the past several years, and have mostly had successes. My most recent client was one I signed back in January this year - it was a newly registered website in a local business niche. It's been ten months and I am still far from achieving my...

Thanks Jacob, this is the strategy I am planning to go with. Anybody got ideas on how to make this better or do you think this could affect the rankings for the site? Current status : Ranking for CITY A with all pages targeted to CITY A. Step 1 : Create separate pages for CITY A and CITY B -...

I would not advise this. There are far too many variables that can impact your gains (or losses). What happens if your client forgets to renew their hosting account and possible leads are unable to send across their inquiry? How do you handle a scenario where your client refuses to move away...

I have a client who is high authority for their location. We have been optimizing his website for more than two years for Location 1. Now he wishes to expand to Location 2. The challenge I see is this: The entire website (including the homepage) is optimized for Location 1. Ideally, now that we...

A lot of on-site and off-site SEO is content today. So yes, I do provide blogging for clients.