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Hey, thanks for using Whitespark's new Local Ranking Grids! Looking good. It is worth noting that different tools tend to return different results because they're all set up slightly differently. Of course, I feel like the way we have ours set up is the closest to accurate rankings. I wonder if...

Based on your report, it looks like you're ranking very well across most of the city. The only place you're not ranking well is in that southern area, and there is likely a large concentration of hair salon competition there. Because of that concentration, and because you are far away from that...

I have had many clients with legitimate keywords in their business names who have this name change happen to them daily. It's definitely competitors doing "spam fighting" work with Suggest an Edit. We simply edit the listing and add the keywords back. We have done it every day for months and...

Whoops. I posted twice by accident.

I’m a huge fan of Whitespark. Especially their new Local Ranking Grids! 😍

Thank you!

I have explored this topic extensively trying many different strategies and tactics. I have come to the conclusion that there is no fix for an existing listing. The only solution is to make a new GBP and then ask support to move your reviews. The steps are outlined in this post from Sterling...

Can confirm that Yelp charges platforms WAY more for listings management via API than any other site on the internet and listings platform have to bake that into their total price or charge it as an add-on fee. We manage Yelp via community edits to add, edit, and remove listings. In other...

Exact matching isn’t important anymore. Google has no problem with partial match these days, so if the only thing that changed was the name, and the phone, address, and web stayed the same, then that work will have had zero impact. It wasn’t hurting you before, and you should expect no ranking...

Yeah, I saw that other business when searching, and it made me wonder if Google is confusing the two businesses.

I usually see this when a website is blocking crawling via robots.txt or a "meta noindex" tag, but that does not appear to be the case here. The next thing I would check is malware, but you look all clear there as well: The NEXT thing I would do is try to submit the edit with an owner...

Unfortunately, no, there is no setting to adjust the order. It appears to be ordered by which photos get the most views and engagement, though, so it would be an interesting experiment to try to manipulate that to get the order you want.

Hi John. I would expect every rank tracker to report different results, and I would expect you to see different results any time you manually search. This is because Google's results are changing all the time, and they vary significantly based on so many factors: - Device - Browser - Location -...

I just checked a handful of Google Business Profiles I manage and none of them are seeing a pattern like this, so I think it may be something specific to this Profile. One thought: did you have the driving directions/map embedded on the site and then it was removed?

I mean, we might be just a little biased, but when I compare what we're building with what's out there, I feel confident standing behind that statement! 😄