Recent content by NexstarNickR

I had one of my members as me today if their Local Service Ad might not be getting as much visibility as normal because their insurance is showing "about to expire". They are currently month to month because they are shopping new providers and don't want to commit to a long term contract yet...

I am working with a company that has shown me that a post they made on the Google Business Profile several years ago are now getting flagged for violating Google's content policy. Is this happening to anyone else? If so, are there any trends in what is getting flagged? The example they shared...

I have not had them try that yet; this is a great first step I can have them take. Thanks for the direction!

I am working with a member of mine who is trying to get Local Service Ads up and running. They are located in the US. They are having trouble getting the background checks done. They are at the part of the process where they need to send the background checks to the technicians, but the...

Does anyone know if this will also effect LSA chat?

I have a member that I coach that is trying to open a second Google LSA Account for a different area. The license they use for the business is the same in both locations, but they are worried that they might get flagged somehow for trying to use the same license number for 2 different LSA...

Thank you, Mike. So many different pieces that can effect the performance, and we try our best to just do things the right way, and hopefully over the long term, we are rewarded. Thank you for the response!

Got it, thank you! This is what I have always gone to, and we have some of the agencies we work with saying one thing, and some say a different thing. But we always like to let the data do the talking! Thank you!

Hey Experts! I work with a number of different agencies in my role as a coach, and I have one of my agencies telling me that they see data that says that LSAs will lose performance if PPC ads are turned off. Have any of you seen this close of a tie between PPC spend and LSA performance? I...

Thanks @Chris Barnard ! So, I would assume that we want to use cities whenever possible to set the service areas? As for the 48hr wait, got it. Doesn't sound like anyone is really seeing that as a "hard rule" that they are taking into consideration when making changes on the account.

Hey Local Search Experts! One of the members I am working with is telling me a couple things about their LSA account, and I was wondering if anyone could share their experiences with me (as a Coach I am not directly working within the tools, so getting field expertise and knowledge is super...

I have a member I am working with who is trying to get their phone number on Apple Maps updated from one that is pulling in automatically from Yelp (the auto-pull is causing attribution issues). However, they said that every time they try and request the call, they are unable to get the call...

After reading this MarTech article on Location-based marketing, I wanted to get opinions on good ways to execute on Geotargeting and Geofencing. Other threads about this have said that this is not viable, but it keeps coming up so I want to ask about it once more. I understand the concept of...

If I am interpreting your statement as "people who search for SABs are more likely to click ads than people who search for other topics", I think that's too broad of a statement to make a conclusion on. As compared to general inquiries where people are looking for an answer to a question? Yes...

Hey SeoSaur! I have seen this happen in my industry as well, where you are ranking better further away. This usually happens when 2 things happen: the area in which the business sits is much more competitive than the surrounding areas, and the website is focused on those surrounding areas. It...