Recent content by Randy Kirk

RankRanger is not offering a ranking for GMB on the phone. What do you find? Is there a difference or is the ranking the same as the computer? If there is a difference, is there anything different about ranking on the phone?

I don't keep up like I used to, Linda. Stable client base. : ) Good news! I have seen some of my clients switched over, and others still only on Places dashboard. We stopped creating + pages more because it was hard to see any immediate ROI from + action on the page. We are treating it...

In the never ending confusion regarding all things Google Local Business, should a brick and mortar business who has no listing start with Google Places, then do a Google+ listing or start with Google+. Just for fun, should a one location store also do a separate maps listing? In my 5.5 years...

Should add: There was no significant shifting of ranking. Some up a little, some down a little. Some old, well established retail brick and mortar. Some new service? No rhyme. No reason. :confused:

I follow about 30 locations and or businesses on Google +. In some cases they are still on the old Places analytics, some the new plus analytics. Uniformly, they all dropped dramatically on or about September 25 by substantial amounts. Since I hadn't seen any other threads on this, I wondered...

I had several clients lose massive "maps" ranking across numerous keywords. Two clients with very substantial and unusual positive moves. Anyone else? I couldn't see any correlation between those that gained and those that lost. All are heavily supported by citations, have solid websites, etc.

I had my first account merge today with no other action. Just went to check the stats and Voila, the new dashboard was in place. None of my other clients are updated.

Free and works well for me for 5 years. PRLog.org

I never cared too much about PR for backlinks, but have used the free service at PRLog.org for five years. I commonly get 500 - 1000 actual readers of the release, not to mention possible calls from the press, which we have received. Moreover, we know it has driven attendance at events and...

I've just spent an hour I'll never get back trying to figure out how to upload a video onto the Video section of a Google+ Business Page. The album aspect is grayed out. The drag and drop feature is grayed out. So that leaves going to my computer hard drive to select a video. Who has videos...

Can anyone help me on this one?

Let's see if one of the MM RERs have any idea what's up. Anything new on this?

Yes, there is definitely confusion. I generally attempt to be on the leading edge, but this time, I'm afraid it wasn't such a good idea. We created Google+ business pages practically the first week the were available. It may be that my associate created the multiple G+ pages prior to knowing...

This is the page I get when I look him up from within a Google+ account https://plus.google.com/100599388765865962902/about?gl=US&hl=en-US You can see the reviews. If I use the phone number from this Plus listing in the set up for Places, it says it doesn't recognize it. If I use the phone...

Associates not paying attention got a location for one of our lawyers set up on Google+ Page with no Google Places Page. Another associate set up a Google Places page on a different account. We have asked for post card twice, but none has come. 1st question. Does it matter if G+ page and G...