Recent content by RattlingTram

Hello SEO community, I was wondering whether one of you whizz-brains out there might be able to give me some pointers. I've got a local florist client, and we're trying to up our schema game. We've got a series of individal local suburb-based pages for locations to which the client offers free...

Ordinary Google search ads are eligible to run in the map pack, but you have NO CONTROL over this. Google doesn't show map pack ads on every map pack search, so in the case of a lot of searches, there is no actual ad inventory to target. Any clicks for click types "get directions", "mobile...

Thanks, I appreciate that. Backlinks is probably an area I need to work on anyway, so I'll do some digging and that probably gives me some sort of actionable lever to pull, which is what I was really lacking. Cheers.

I have a veterinarian client who is dominating maps for search term "veterinarian", but considerably less well for "veterinarians", and #2 in their own geo (with little map presence beyond for "vet" and "vets". The site homepage is optimised for all these terms, I've been trying to hit all...

Thanks Joy, I appreciate the response, not very least as I know you're data/evidence driven with this stuff, so I'm sure what you say is correct. However I actually just got my developer to do some clever stuff which autogenerates service area schema using a few custom fields in Wordpress...

Appreciate the response, Rich. Thankyou. Not least becuase geocircle will be the simplest one to implement, lol.

Wondering how any Schema experts (could we maybe have a schema forum on here?) would advise targeting areaServed in markup? It seems intuitive to me that using a TEXT type here and just specifying each individual suburb served as an individual item (my understanding is it won't accept multiple...

I have a veterinarian client, and I'm really amazed now I have a Local Viking sub and can run some reports reasonably regularly to see how Google is throwing up some INSANE results for search terms which clearly all have equal search intent. Specifically, client is dominating #1 in map packs...

Hello friends, I'm a digital advertiser by background who has wound up skilling up rapidly in the local SEO space. I've gotten loaded up with a bunch of Local Viking credits, and the results I'm getting from maps have rased a couple of issues. 1. Local Viking support have convinced me these...

Yes, I noted the article said it needed to be internally linked. I've actually buried it in the menu, and I *tried* to add a bit of contextual text with actual h1 tags on the page and so on, although I wasn't clear whether that would make a difference I figure it wouldn't hurt and used some...

Thanks so much for your reply. Yes. My main issue is that all I'm getting in Search Console are Pinterest, Yellow Pages and Aussie-hours. Search Console is showing more backlinks than any backlink checker - including SEMRush, Backlink Watch, Monitor Backlinks, Open Link Profiler. Major sites...

Hi folks, I've recently started doing local SEO/directory citations for clients as an add-on service, but things are really not working out. I'm using consistent NAP across all my citations and I'm flat out not getting backlinks from them no matter which backlinks checker tool I use. And now...

Thankyou Margaret - that's everything I needed to know. PS I just looked you up, because I think I'm going to need someone like you handy here - do you have any experience with recovering GMB listings from any Google penalties? In which case I *may* have a gig for you This client hasn't given...

Hello friends - newbie to the forum here - I've recently started a solo agency here in Melbourne Australia - but SEO is NOT my long suit Just built a site for a new veterinary clinic, and I can add schema JSON code without too much difficulty normally - but I'm stumped by this thing about vet...