Recent content by WilliamGMBE

@SabrinaB You should consider relevance and traffic availability here. What you select as a primary category has a big influence on ranking, so best to have the most relevant and specific ones. On the other hand, you dont want to select a primary category which does not has a lot of search...

Google had announced conversational search with Gemini on the Google Maps app. It was supposed to launch in US this month. See video here: Was wondering if any of you have got access to it yet?

Thank you for sharing

@luischavez0104 Where were you able to see this summary? Was curious.

Primary category has a higher correlation with ranking for that particular search term. You can have only 1 primary category. So in your case, everything else being equal, you will be ranking lower from your competitor for the search term 'Heart Hospital' and you will be ranking higher from your...

Thank you for sharing your thoughs. Couple of things I will like to add. - With Digital Markets Act(in EU) and other possible laws in other areas, google is considered as a gatekeeper and will have to give equal fairness to Google Maps and other maps on Google result. Same for reviews. This...

I am not sure I follow fully, do you mean that when you searched for 'Heart hospital', your business is showing up with category as 'hospital' which is your primary category? If the above is your question, then this is the expected standard behavior. The category shown on normal search(without...

Yes, I think it help with ranking for trailing keyword. We havent done conclusive testing for this, but it is sometimes obvious when using maps. Some trailing keywords from review does show up when searching for it. To give an example, for the same Toronto location I am doing two similar...

It is still working. It should show up on Google Maps. As an alternative, you can also find this information on the 'Review Audit' inside 'GMB Everywhere' chrome extension. Screenshot below.

You all must have heard about the leak from Google that happened this week. It is definitely a goldmine of data. We did some analysis of the leaked data especially to glean information that is relevant and actionable for local SEO. You can find our analysis of it here...

Was wondering what are the common tools used for website analysis, especially when it comes to website for local SEO? Both free and Paid? I did find a similar question here, but that was from around 10 years ago. So was wondering what are the favorite tool for website analysis for local SEO...

Thank you @ElizabethRule

I think it will evolve a lot. This is my personal opinion. Have you tried Perplexity AI search? Or have you tried the audio conversation of ChatGPT? You will see that the experience is much much better than traditional Google Search. I personally find that I use the traditional Google search...

@ElizabethRule @Adam Di Frisco Just wanted to follow up to your answers. What are the main reasons for not using it more? Just wanted to get your personal opinion. Is it? - Quality is not good enough? - The risk of any penalizing from Google to AI photos in future? - Price? - The work is...

Thank you @ElizabethRule . That makes sense :)