A type of Google Maps ranking puzzle that I come across all the time.. ..two local map ranking scans for the same query performed only a few hours apart. Why is there such a difference? For those who don’t recognize this type of image, its produced by a local SEO ranking tool that checks the …
Log into your Google My Business (GMB) dashboard Click on the Info tab Click on the address area (below the blue section) Choose ‘Yes’ to the – I deliver goods and services to my customers at their location Make sure that – I also serve customers at my address – is uncheked Click the …
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It’s easy to grasp the fact that most e-commerce sites will have various cyclical trends throughout the year. Maybe an uptrend before Christmas, maybe a downtrend for the summer, but other kinds of businesses have trends as well that may not be so apparent. Sometimes they are not yearly events, and the business owner may …
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In this article I will explore questions regarding HTML and XML sitemaps. Although a sitemap is basically a list of all the web pages of your site, there are a number of issues that can crop up and need to be dealt with. Submitting an XML sitemap helps make sure the search engines know about …
It’s important to know what are people saying about your brand online. When working with a client, I always make sure to ask “are you monitoring your brand or company name mentions?” But small businesses and website owners may not want to spend money on expensive monitoring services. In this article, I cover some of …
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Why move to HTTPS? A few years ago Google announced that the security of a website will be one of the factors that it will include in their ranking algorithm. If that isn’t enough of a reason, there are several other reasons as well to switch to HTTPS: Better Referral Data – HTTPs to HTTP …
The meta description is a code tag in HTML, that summarizes a page’s content in about 250 characters (updated to reflect the December 2017 changes for longer descriptions). Search engines show the meta description in search results below the Title tag for organic search results. Optimizing the meta description is very important for on-page …
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Re-branding a company is a huge deal and contains many aspects. This post will deal more specifically with the issue of when a business decides to change it’s name. I will give a few examples of why even after you have changes your business name, and maybe even your website, that Google and other search …
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A question commonly asked about local Google My Business (GMB) is the area of how to deal with practitioner listings. Are they allowed? Can I have two listings for the same place, and will it hurt my local rankings? So to clear up any confusion, I have decided to put this post up to explain …
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It occurs often when doing the initial research on a client, that there are more than one Google My Business Listings for their business. Sometimes these duplicate listings are already being ‘managed’. But often there are old listings that have erroneous information associated with them. Check The Ranking of the Listing First Before you make …
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