Recent content by Nathan Thomas

It seems to me that the only reason it WOULD affect local pack listings is by simply disabling/not showing the website in the pack listings unless the user was searching from a desktop. Similar to what they do right now when a website may have malware or other issues and simply isn't available...

THAT is Sofa King AWESOME! Excellent post Linda. Copywriting is definitely important but often overlooked. It's an area I often forget about and just kind of get stuck in day to day activities just trying to "get things done".

Hey Linda, thank you for the response. Yeah I see that now, after seeing all the conflicting data in about 5 other cities and one atlanta address that was using a UPS store, I thought they very well could be using it. Seems like there are a lot of other issues going on though far beyond...

Hey Linda and other Local SEO people! On my blog I started a 7 pack analysis topic that I'm doing every week and this is something I came across last week but haven't gotten around to asking you brilliant minds here! The listing in question is "Atlantis Plumbing", analyzed here: Issue 1: Why...

Conflicting NAP data isn't exactly a huge deal when it comes to organic rankings. Different rules there! You said you were getting a lot of .edu links. How are you earning those links? Are you outsourcing, doing it yourself, etc? What I find to happen is when building .edu links that may be...

Thanks for the response Linda. I've been thinking that it would effect organic but not so much the packs. Guess we will see soon enough! Most of my clients are already using responsive sites. I wonder how long it will take for Google to look specifically for responsive vs. mobile compatibility.

Linda, Do you believe that this is instantly going to effect local? I've been researching and looking at a lot of different things here, not for the sake of my clients but in hopes of some nasty competitors to drop off lol. One thing I'm wondering is if this is truly going to affect local...

Well to be fair those 200 "ranking signals" are just speculation. Personally, I've never had a problem ranking sites with domain privacy. I have a lot of data at my fingertips from my own clients but I never checked correlation of rankings with whether or not privacy was enabled. Should make...

The problem I have with Home Advisor is that many of my clients that have it, I guess they're paying for leads and HA implements a call tracking number. I'm not one that believes NAP consistency is a huge deal if there are only a couple spots here and there but given Home Advisor's prominence...