Content by LightOfHeaven in March, 2026

@keyserholiday exactly that's been our experience too they'd also need a way to prevent competitors from weaponizing it . Imagine being able to get your competitor suspended just by sending fake clicks to their listing. system is designed to ignore bad signals, not punish businesses for...

Thanks for the reply Joy, and I respect your position on it. Regarding Ben Fisher's franchise story, I am curious about what "overly aggressive" looked like in that case. Based on what I usualy see with our franchise clients is that they seem to attract extra scrutiny from google for reasons...

Right now, not many people are talking about AI Mode because the technology to track is not mainstream. So I'm sharing data and proven tests that you really won't find anywhere else. A.I overview for now is : Business ├─ Place ID - Maps and Search ├─ CID -Business id └─ Knowledge Graph...

Concluding this series of posts on how intentful CTR can help GMBs.

While logged in, I guess get a live calendar check for bookings by " starting a task " ? seems to be a hit or miss. Tried it a few times, the answers were not consistent at all. I wonder if this only works for websites that use the booking providers Google supports? Not a single GMB was...

Here's a good example. This is the same GMB I previously posted about, and this time I'm tracking the keywords without any location targeting see how bad it's performing? Rank 514 out of 513 competitors. 0% visibility. Every single point on the grid is 20+. The top 5 competitors are all massage...

@mabourz Honestly, if you're not ranking in the top 10 and you're only looking for "organic" ways to increase engagements, you'll be fighting an uphill battle. Let's say you're position 3 and trying to get to P1. that is doable because users naturally look at the top 3 nd on the app it's...

This GMB is turning 3 Weeks old Friday (). I know newly setup businesses get a boost but looks like this is holding on strong. Black and white circles are " decoys". where clicks are purposely interacting with other businesses that are ranking for the same term but are ranked in the...

I apologize for taking a bit long to reply on here as I am still get use to making this site a regular on my list. That is somewhat correct @PSEOLocal. by "token" I'm assuming you mean a logged in user or devices? Google maps interactions count once per day. no matter how many times you click...