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Was wondering if anyone knows any unique market research techniques? Everyone knows about google analytics.
On the GMB app, I see I have 10 reviews, and I’ve responded to almost all of them, but when I look at the listing on google itself, it shows just 1 five star review.
My client is looking for a little kickback from a client they sent me. What's standard practice in this situation?
Thanks in advance
Thanks in advance
For those who don’t know, local falcon is a service that gives you a proximity report of a certain username, not just a linear number. This is imo absolutely key for auiditing local SEO and ive used it to great success so far.
Anyone else have any experience with LF?
Anyone else have any experience with LF?
Curious to hear what people think about this.
Everyone basically agrees that backlinks to your website help the website's ranking, but there are varying answers about whether backlinks to your GMB listing help its ranking.
Do you think backlinks to your Google My Business listing help ranking at all?
Everyone basically agrees that backlinks to your website help the website's ranking, but there are varying answers about whether backlinks to your GMB listing help its ranking.
Do you think backlinks to your Google My Business listing help ranking at all?
Do you mean links directly to google.com/maps and a CID? Or to a business.site address?
I can't pretend to know the answer to this, but I wonder how you could get an answer. Maybe by comparing businesses that have similar link profiles, but GMB vs their own domain. I can already hear the chants of "correlation vs causation" coming!
I can't pretend to know the answer to this, but I wonder how you could get an answer. Maybe by comparing businesses that have similar link profiles, but GMB vs their own domain. I can already hear the chants of "correlation vs causation" coming!
It does not help. Many have tested this and determined it is not an effective or impactful tactic. It’s a waste of your time and money. Link to your website, not your GMB listing. SterlingSky published the results of their test here: https://www.sterlingsky.ca/gmb-backlinks/
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How to prevent Google from crawling HTTP version for a page?
What's your thought on this?
Thanks.
What's your thought on this?
Thanks.
You can configure your web sevrer to do a redirect from the http ->https version of all your pages.
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If you have done the redirect and you don't have any HTTP resources on the site google will eventually slow to stop.
If you're receiving HTTP hits you might have http links or content locations on your site still. If you migrated to https and did the 301's make sure ALL content is pointing to the https version EVERYWHERE.
If you're receiving HTTP hits you might have http links or content locations on your site still. If you migrated to https and did the 301's make sure ALL content is pointing to the https version EVERYWHERE.
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Hello
I’ve recently hired someone to do SEO work on our local business website. He has been optimizing the site for speed and other things, for off site he’s been focusing on back links.
My question is, how do I keep him accountable and make sure the work he’s doing is making progress?
I already know to see first page results takes 3-12 months, however, he’s got to have something which gives me updates month to month so I can see things are actually progressing as I’m paying him. What things should I be asking him?
I’ve recently hired someone to do SEO work on our local business website. He has been optimizing the site for speed and other things, for off site he’s been focusing on back links.
My question is, how do I keep him accountable and make sure the work he’s doing is making progress?
I already know to see first page results takes 3-12 months, however, he’s got to have something which gives me updates month to month so I can see things are actually progressing as I’m paying him. What things should I be asking him?
I think it's important to make sure you and your contractor to agree on what kind of SEO work they will be doing and try to define some KPI's off of this work.
SEO can mean many different things - technical, on-page, off-page, etc. Some technical issues can take a while to sort out, on-page is pretty basic but can take time for large sites, off-page takes time as well.
I don't agree with a keyword rank or traffic report as these can normally increase or decrease unless you have a base line. Good to keep a pulse on but not absolute. You could rank for keywords that don't bring in sales, or they can build up traffic that doesn't convert. Defined KPI's for your specific business are important.
As a local company with local SEO work I would expect that you want leads and those leads in the form of phone calls, form submissions or people walking through the door. I would worry less about overall traffic and more about my organic rank for money keywords and rank for GMB site. I would also track phone calls and form submissions or however people contact you. If you don't have a way to track that now or have a CRM that does that you should.
I would expect a report summarizing what was done that month and I would want a report that highlights tracking of GMB and organic website rank.
SEO can mean many different things - technical, on-page, off-page, etc. Some technical issues can take a while to sort out, on-page is pretty basic but can take time for large sites, off-page takes time as well.
I don't agree with a keyword rank or traffic report as these can normally increase or decrease unless you have a base line. Good to keep a pulse on but not absolute. You could rank for keywords that don't bring in sales, or they can build up traffic that doesn't convert. Defined KPI's for your specific business are important.
As a local company with local SEO work I would expect that you want leads and those leads in the form of phone calls, form submissions or people walking through the door. I would worry less about overall traffic and more about my organic rank for money keywords and rank for GMB site. I would also track phone calls and form submissions or however people contact you. If you don't have a way to track that now or have a CRM that does that you should.
I would expect a report summarizing what was done that month and I would want a report that highlights tracking of GMB and organic website rank.
Hello! New to the group and excited to join.
My website has been listed on some resource pages of pretty high DR sites. However, in GSC I see none of them listed as external links. How long does this typically take? It's been a few weeks so far.
Thanks!
My website has been listed on some resource pages of pretty high DR sites. However, in GSC I see none of them listed as external links. How long does this typically take? It's been a few weeks so far.
Thanks!
I've seen people argue both sides, some saying that geo-tagging photos helps, others saying that it doesn't move the needle at all in your Google My Business listing.
What do you think?
What do you think?
Based on what I've read, I'm skeptical that Google would take geo-tagging data into account for anything. John Mueller himself in 2017 repeated what Matt Cutts had said 3 years earlier at that point, that geotagging data is not taken into consideration.
Bill Slawski has written about some interesting Google patents involving image analysis, but those patents seem 100% focused on spam fighting. I also imagine that analysis is done with machine learning of some kind, and doesn't bother with the image metadata.
Bill Slawski has written about some interesting Google patents involving image analysis, but those patents seem 100% focused on spam fighting. I also imagine that analysis is done with machine learning of some kind, and doesn't bother with the image metadata.
Looking for advice and further reading on helping a new business establish their listings.
These are different businesses but I’m inclined to recommend they consolidate to one listing/website, revise their existing websites to landing pages that direct to the new page, concentrate on that page’s content and building community as whole.
A ranch with separate businesses on site, residential (their home/street view) in front.
Business 1. Yoga studio is being built but all outdoors at this time.
Business 2. Gardening and wellness workshops in their fields.
Business 3. Artist studio.
Context:
- I haven’t worked with someone who does work out of their home.
- Houston doesn’t zone, it is common for a business to be within a residential area & be your neighbor.
These are different businesses but I’m inclined to recommend they consolidate to one listing/website, revise their existing websites to landing pages that direct to the new page, concentrate on that page’s content and building community as whole.
A ranch with separate businesses on site, residential (their home/street view) in front.
Business 1. Yoga studio is being built but all outdoors at this time.
Business 2. Gardening and wellness workshops in their fields.
Business 3. Artist studio.
Context:
- I haven’t worked with someone who does work out of their home.
- Houston doesn’t zone, it is common for a business to be within a residential area & be your neighbor.
Hey Sarah! Are the businesses truly separate, in the legal sense? Having separate listings for the same legal business entity, at the same address, might open you up to a suspension. If it's the same business, but different services, then I'd recommend one listing.
However, if these are truly separate businesses, you might want to consider the impact on how the reviews are split up on GMB. Would it make sense to have reviews for these different services falling under the same listing? Google considers keywords in the reviews a ranking signal, so having reviews for such diverse services may dilute that signal.
I'd say, if they're separate entities, and they would have different primary categories, then you're probably okay to use different listings for each if you want to do that.
Sorry for the "it depends" answer! But there's some nuance to consider here.
However, if these are truly separate businesses, you might want to consider the impact on how the reviews are split up on GMB. Would it make sense to have reviews for these different services falling under the same listing? Google considers keywords in the reviews a ranking signal, so having reviews for such diverse services may dilute that signal.
I'd say, if they're separate entities, and they would have different primary categories, then you're probably okay to use different listings for each if you want to do that.
Sorry for the "it depends" answer! But there's some nuance to consider here.