Recent content by warrenpd

So I've used all of these except Places Scout. Local Viking, Local Falcon, BrightLocal and WhiteSpark don't use the API for data. I believe all of them use Google Maps for their map grids rankings. I haven't seen the results vary that much between any of them. Personally I use Local Falcon...

Personally I would do a separate website and listings that focused solely on construction services. It's always difficult/impossible to rank a GBP for unrelated categories like this. Also from a content, backlink, citation and review standpoint its better to focus those things on the niche that...

This happened to me on a bulk verified account about a month ago. We put in a ticket and support didn't seem to have a solution. A couple of weeks later the locations were just verified. No idea how they got verified but they were verified.

Thanks Jason. I've looked through this. Most of these are focused on restuarants or medical services. I'm having a hard time finding something that wants to work with moving and storage. It's interesting that Scorpion has this as an offering for their clients though.

I'm looking into getting the "book now" button on about 200 listings. Can anyone recommend a third party provider that could do this at scale in the moving and storage space?

So it never showed up for you?

So I'm starting this thread because I have not been able to find a straight answer for this. The "Book Now" button on a Google Business listings has always been associated with have an approved 3rd party provider. I have several clients that allow you to add your own link and do not provide any...

I'm writing some articles on GBP management and franchises. I worked as a SEO director at one for years but I wanted to see how others in the space handled certain things. If anyone on here has experience managing local for franchises I would love to ask you some questions.

I can name countless examples of separate businesses that share the same staff, hours, address and website. Many are large chains with separate business units. In this instance a unique name and phone number are going to be required other wise its just going to show up as a duplicate from the...

I think you are probably going to be able to do it without any issues in this case then.

Barber shop and hair salon are separate categories in GMB (despite being essentially the same thing). So I think in this instance, if they were different businesses entities, so Bob's Barber Shop and Jill's Hair Salon, you could do this and not violate Google's guidelines. The other question is...

This is kind of a grey area. By definition I think this is against the guidelines. However, I've seen many non spam examples of this. One would be "Geek Squad" which is a separate business entity that is inside of Best Buy. So ultimately they share the same address but have two different GMB...

I'm seeing this issue too across hundreds of locations. Nothing being published for the last 2 days. Most wouldn't fall into Joy's article for being filtered.

Hi, Here is a screen shot of the Dashboard http://postimg.org/image/5b9xt7syz/ And here is a link to the G+ page https://plus.google.com/+Markettradersinstitute

Hi all, I recently took over a new account and the business has a lot of reviews in Google. I've always been able to respond to reviews through GMB dashboard. For some reason it doesnt show up at all for this account and I have owner level access. Anyone else ever have this problem?