We already know that the address you used to verify your Google My Business listing is important when ranking within your selected services areas. You monitor your local positions, but do you monitor changes made in Google Maps? This story begins back in July 2019 after the Valentines Update when the County of Cheshire ceased […]
My heart bleeds for South Africa this week watching the events unfold across the country. I may not live in South Africa anymore (my family still does) but my roots run deep and I feel your pain and I need to do something to help my fellow South Africans. In 1994 I volunteered to put […]
A search for Vacation Rentals in Google My Business will bring up loads of articles on how to set up a vacation rental profile in Google My Business, they all then go on to say, “at the time of writing this Vacation Rentals are against Google My Business Guidelines” I can see vacation rentals (holiday […]
Local Search is really catching up with Traditional Search Results where Google is working really hard to match user intent in the local pack, local finder and maps, which are generated from Google my Business profiles. (Yup – Google My Business now refers to listings / pages as profiles) What are Local Justifications? Justifications […]
The Google My Business Kansas bug has hit the UK, only Kansas is now Moffat in Scotland. This bug drops a Service Area Business into Moffat, Scotland instead of the businesses selected service area. What the Moffat Bug Looks Like Business appears in Moffat, Scotland This is a waste collection business, located in London […]
A Google review can be removed from your Google My Business listing for a number of reasons, from automatic spam detection, account suspension to simply being deleted by the user. The usual question we see is, “Why are my Google My Business reviews being removed / missing?” and the crucial misunderstanding in that question is […]
Menu Highlight justifications have been appearing in the local pack for a while now, but how do you manage or take advantage of these justifications appearing when a user searches for a particular type of dish. Menu Highlights Menu highlights come from images of dishes that have been named / labelled. You cannot […]
Spammers always find new way to spam and their latest stomping ground are the free websites provided by Google My Business for businesses without a website. The only problem is that Google My Business cannot remove these spam websites and are asking users to report these websites to Google – wait what? Google My […]
A new change with Google My Business is providing hotels with great opportunities to have their hotel appear within the Hotel Pack (local pack) for content (website mentions) found on the hotels website. This feature within the local pack for all other categories is not new and has been around for some time, but now […]
This is not the first time I have been seeing unsolicited ownership requests coming from Touch 2 Success, but there has been a large spike in restaurant ownership requests from this company. What To Do: 1. Deny the Ownership Request You should deny the ownership request as soon as it comes through. Click […]
We already know that the address you used to verify your Google My Business listing is important when ranking within your selected services areas. You monitor your local positions, but do you monitor changes made in Google Maps? This story begins back in July 2019 after the Valentines Update when the County of Cheshire ceased […]
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