Recent content by warrenpd

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?

Hi all, I'm kind of unexperienced with schema and I wanted to get some advice on what markup you would use for a college with multiple campus locations

Has anyone here ever fixed a detached listing issues after adding some local schema markup? I'm working on a multi location business with great organic rankings but a bunch of detached maps issues.

How does everyone feel about the impending real time penguin update? I feel like it might have a very negative impact on local link building.

I feel like this is just Google taking one step closer to implementing paid local search results across the board just like they are testing with the San Francisco Plumbers.

Hi all, I have an interesting issue I could use some advice on. I have a client with 17 locations. On all of their GMB pages the subdomain is listed as the landing page. They are structured like this. memphis.sitename.com. The also have location based subdirectory pages on their main site...

Yahoo is very difficult to delete/update listings on. You can try and reclaim the listing and edit it but the edits have to approved and can take months to be applied. If you are just trying to delete it you are going to have to find out where Yahoo is pulling the listing information from...

Thanks Dustybones. Whatever I get will have to be able to add/remove citations from the larger data aggregaters. I am looking for the best option between Yext, Brightlocal, Moz and Whitespark. Ive used Moz for one location business but I think it might be cost prohibitive for something with like...