Recent content by PaulSteinbrueck

It sounds like you're doing a lot of things well. The first thing that comes to mind is your location(s) compared to city center and your competitors. I suggest using a local grid ranking tool to see how you're ranking at various places in your area. And if you give the name of your company...

We have published more than 2,000 blog articles over the last 18 years and are in the process of reviewing them. In my opinion, it's worthwhile to Remove and redirect old posts that are out dated and not getting much traffic. Combining posts that are very similar (unpublish all but one and...

Wow, that sucks. I am not able to help, but watching to see if/how this gets resolved.

Hmm... Maybe I will make myself a practitioner GBP & niche page - "Dr. SEO - Local SEO - [City]" ;)

Wow! I must have missed when you published that last year. Seems like a very conclusive test.

I received that email for my church's GBP. Maybe we'll get more old folks? idk lol

Thanks John. A couple of follow-up questions... 1. What if after trying to fix a page that failed CWV in SC, it still fails? How much time and effort are you willing to put into trying to fix it? 2. Do you do anything to CWV or PageSpeed after that initial check? If a client changed a page and...

I'm just wondering about "best practices" regarding Core Web Vitals (CWV) and PageSpeed? My understanding is that CWV is a ranking factor by relatively minor. I've also noticed that different tools (e.g SEMRush, GTMetrics) produce different CWV scores which are also different from Google Search...

Is the location service page you are seeing out rank your homepage for the city closest to you? It could very well be that Google considers the location page nearest to you more relevant than the homepage. Have you tried searching in an incognito window with location services turned off?

Jeff, a some ORM-related things our clients have asked for include A positive Google review disappeared and they want help getting it back A negative review is posted that violates Google's guidelines (fake, irrelevant, etc) and they want help getting it removed They have very few reviews and...

Joy, are these lawyers listed as SAB or physical locations?

Yeah, I've got these guys around the corner from me - Home - Fence Company Near Me

Hi Timur, there is a lot more to SEO than just great content. Here's a whole series of videos/articles: What is SEO? Before you try to do SEO for clients, I recommend you start by doing SEO for your own website, track your search rankings and traffic so you have data that shows you are getting...

If he's legitimately operating out of 3 locations and has the signage to prove it, than that should be fine. Lots of service area businesses like carpet cleaners, plumbers, etc have franchises that each have their own GBP as a SAB.

Thanks for replying. That's now how I would have read them, but I can see how it could confuse a prospective customer.