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Hi William, what do you think about adding this to your extension? The "New on Google" Feature

Thank you Darren, not only was that very informative but it’s also inspiring. One question So for something like an electrician it would be OK to make 30 or 40 different service pages for each different task that they provide, and it wouldn’t be considered spammy? Or is there some limit? And...

I’m gonna throw a wrench into this. I believe Mike is talking about local SEO for small businesses, like PC repair services and contractors. These businesses generally don’t get very good links, nor top quality content. A blogger might be able to write great articles on plumbing to the whole...

One thing to consider is that this can be personal. We put a lot of time into learning our trade and honing our skills. Then we put a lot of sweat into our installations. So when we see them stolen and someone else taking credit for them, it bothers us. It might not be the best financial...

Colan, You feel it will increase leads? My amateur assumption has always been that it will simply funnel leads into a different direction that is harder for some of us to deal with. What I mean is that I always assumed if someone would click on the messaging then they would click to call you...

Because it seems like you’re looking for low quality content for testing, and it’s only $5.

I don’t use Google Docs, but there might be a simple “Remove Formatting“ button that you could click instead of having to copy and paste the text into Notepad to get raw text. Gmail has this function so Google Docs might as well.

You might be better off having someone on Fiverr whip up some articles.

Yeah, I have had issues with the images that I attached to posts cutting off the most important part of the image.

Google has been showing a town-based image that I have on each of my town-based landing pages inside of the mobile organic search results for years. I never really thought about the size or aspect ratio until I read what Joy said above. I just looked and all of my images are rectangular on the...

I usually use the Google chrome extension. However, more and more I am using my cell phone to do things and I recently realized I have no way to figure out a CID on my cell phone when I was trying to report a listing thru the Redressal form. Thanks for the link!

I ran my company through Yext’s scan tool a few years ago. It couldn’t possibly be more wrong. It said that I wasn’t on Google or Yelp or any of the big sites that I was on for years. The next day I get a call from them offering me their service at a discount. I asked the woman why I would use...

Since the short name link is gone, what do you guys use to link to the GMB profile on the business website? The CID link?

OK, thank you. That’s really a relief. I’ll stop making edits with that account now. I thought that being active with my personal Google account would help my business listing in some small way. Then when reading here I got worried that maybe it was holding back my business listing because I...

Wow. :( I do pretty good in the local listings, I come up first in my own town and I also show in many other towns around me. Would that mean that my account hasn’t been penalized? Is it an on/off type of thing or diminished ranking type of thing?