Recent content by MattH

Thanks for the advice, everyone. The manhours it would take to create a new email address (or use an existing alias) and transfer the current Places pages...not worth it in my opinion, and definitely not in the client's opinion. There are 60+ hotels. I've been on the phone with Google reps...

I really want the new places dashboard for the 60+ hotels I manage SEO for. It has been almost a year since the new dash rolled out. Is there anything I can do to speed up this process? Is there potentially something I am doing wrong with the account that is preventing me from being upgraded...

Thanks Linda -- very informative. I think I'm going to begin the process of adding the city name to the hotels.

It looks similar to Yext, but with a different distribution. I haven't gotten a chance to use it yet, because when i tried to upload my data file, it said all my descriptions had to be at least 250 characters. Haven't had time to add an additional sentence to all hotels.

I have been crunching some numbers regarding how many of my competitors have the city name in their business title. Whether this has always been the case, or if it represents a sudden increase after prior to the upgraded guidelines, I do not know. Anyway, on average, 67% of businesses in my...

Hi everyone, New to the forum -- I was very eager to post about this, but wanted to wait a few more days in hopes of stabilized rankings in the carousel. Alas, no luck though. Here's my experience with this: One of my clients is a pretty large hotel brand, with about 60 locations across the...

Bill Slawski wrote a very insightful post about how Google chooses the "known for" phrases, based on a patent they filed. How Google Finds 'Known For' Terms for Entities