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"Will Google Devalue Local Citations?" My Short Answer 22 Aug 2013 | 07:13 am
Hendrik Vos of Online Business Builders asked me a great question yesterday: “I wonder how far off 100% is the probability that Google eventually ends up treating all these manufactured citations/ li...
An Overlooked Way to Report a Crooked Local Competitor 16 Aug 2013 | 04:01 am
A recent conversation with my buddy, Darren Shaw of Whitespark.ca, led me to wonder: what is the best way to report a business that’s using a fake address or fake DBA to get ahead in the Google+ Local...
The Best Darn Local SEO Client Questionnaire 8 Aug 2013 | 08:47 am
If you’re a business owner who needs more local visibility, you want to make sure the person helping you has all he/she needs to deliver the goods. Or, if you’re a local-SEO pro, you want to make sur...
12 Reasons Google’s "City Experts" Reviews Program Sucks 5 Aug 2013 | 01:11 am
Well, what I mean to say is that it’s going to suck. What I suspect will be the short life of Google’s latest program has barely begun. Google’s “City Experts” Google+ reviews program is essentially...
Quick Thoughts on the Google+ Local Review Pop-up 1 Aug 2013 | 10:41 am
You may have noticed the annoying pop-up (or lightbox) that appears when you click on a business’s “reviews” link in the Google+ Local search results. Andrew Shotland discovered this review pop-up tw...
How to Get Good Karma at LocalVisibilitySystem 31 Jul 2013 | 08:01 am
What other people share with me is the lifeblood of this blog/site, and of my business. To whatever extent I’ve been able to help business owners and contribute to the local-search “community,” it’s ...
State of the Most-Important Local Search Sites (Mid-2013) 24 Jul 2013 | 07:12 am
A lot has changed in the last few months in the world of local search. All of it affects your efforts to get visible to local customers. I’m not even talking about Google+ Local. Like Oprah’s weigh...
10 Observations on Google’s Local Carousel 22 Jul 2013 | 12:54 pm
It’s no secret that I don’t like Google’s “local carousel.” It’s ugly, inconvenient, and counterintuitive. Much ink has been spilled on the carousel. Many excellent points have been made. We local-...
Yelp Business Categories List 19 Jul 2013 | 01:22 pm
It’s not too hard to find categories on Yelp to list your business under. But it’s much easier to miss some and lose out on easy visibility – both in and out of Yelp – simply because you didn’t find ...
5-Star Review Ratings Return to Google+ Local Pages 11 Jul 2013 | 09:04 am
Look at any business’s Google local listing. Notice anything…different? That’s right. Google has returned to showing businesses’ average review ratings on a 5-star scale. Didn’t happen a moment to...
