Category: Local Listings
Examine the impact of maintaining consistent and accurate local listings on your local SEO strategy.
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VPS, shared or dedicated hosting?
You can use any shred housed for your small content-based website. I'm using shared hosting, and you can see the website page working well.
| Njnbiure45r40 -
What do I need to do for SEO when moving a business out of state?
Agree with ross kernez, You'll have to build local links if you want to rank locally in google, You must update your new address and physical location, and phone number. I am affiliated with Eckerts Moving business, Along with taking care of all their moving task we always build high-quality local links for clients which are moving their business.
| elonmmusk0 -
Why won't a business show up in the local pack when all signs point to that it should?
Does Google really care about the business which is running currently in the background such as Google map and information about that company detail shared on the map?
| seotoolshero1000 -
Best address to use on Google business listing for youth sports program
Hi Miriam, Just wanted to update you that we were able to verify the listing! What we did was simply work with the community center to receive the verification postcard. Our listing still shows "located in: community center" with the community center address and our business phone number, but I can no login, respond to reviews, etc. Just incase you run into a similar question in the future! Thanks again for your guidance.
| Tony_GP0 -
Should I change my listing title or even my domain
Title Change is the best idea. You should not change the domain name. It will harmful to your website.
| Adlanera0 -
Does Page speed matter for google ranking?
Dobrý den,webová stránka optimalizovaná . Já také optimalizuji stránku https://www.kvetinyhned.cz Kde rozvážíme květiny https://www.kvetinyhned.cz/rozvoz-kvetin-praha/ . Rozvoz květin praha zdarma doprava Dovoz květin praha nonstop . Best plugin for WordPress is Yoast.
| Martin11Martin1 -
Why are my citations not showing up?
I have read a lot of the responses here. While some of it I agree with, I think we are overlooking some very basic ideas about search engines and what they do, how they work and how we get credit for backlinks that push up the domain authority of our websites. So lets start at the beginning. It is a 'given in the SEO industry' that google citations (listings on multiple business listing sites) is important and that by signing up for YEXT we are attempting to solve a two-fold problem: We are synchronizing the NAP issue read more here ( name address phone number) for the purpose of resolving NAP consistency. we are having our sites listed on Showmelocal, Manta, Foursquare, Yelp etc in a synchronized format with a clickable link to our URL. ( domain of our business) The second one, we immediately assume that by signing up for YEXT we will have our business domain listed there and google will give us credit for this backlink - WELL THIS WILL ONLY HAPPEN IF THAT PAGE THAT YOU ARE ON IS INDEXED BY GOOGLE. I.E. YOUR LISTING ON FOURSQUARE OR SHOWMELOCAL GETS INDEXED BY GOOGLE. AND THEN YOUR BUSINESS WEBSITE GETS INDEXED BY GOOGLE A FEW DAYS LATER -AND THEN GOOGLE GIVES YOUR CREDIT BECAUSE YOU HAVE A HIGH RANKING DOMAIN AUTHORITY DOFOLLOW BACKLINK POINTING TOWARDS YOUR BUSINESS URL. This is not the case. Some people have mentioned on here that google sees these links. Google WILL NOT unless they get indexed. I agree with Chris Ashton that google does not see these links until a long time later - this is due to the amount of time it takes to index these sites and all these pages. Only when those pages with your business URL are indexed and your business site is indexed will you get credit. If you find this explanation to be inaccurate then test it. You have to be testing it with a domain that you have signed up for YEXT and you cannot find its citation listings with its backlink when you perform an MOZ backlink search. Look at a business that is signed up for YEXT and not showing google citations when you use MOZ or other software. Perform a search in the same format as it is displayed on foursquare without the https: ....eg. enter the domainname.com just on its own into the google search bar....look through the pages ....if you cannot find it then the foursquare page is not indexed. Or search the name of the business with "foursquare" along side it in the google search bar.... eg: Bergman dentistry Queens foursquare ( a fictitious practice) **if you dont see it in the SERPS pages -and it listed on foursquare- then its not indexed - ** hence you have confirmation. ** try with other citations sites... ** My solution - take the link to the profile page on foursquare or any other site - paste it multiple times into indexkings.com or pingfarm.com ( many advise against this but how else do you index someone else's site that you have no control over and you cannot login into search console) - also copy those multiple links and paste them into about 5-10 youtube video comment sections ( preferably your own) - when you tube indexes it it will crawl those links. then create a separate page on you site title links. paste the 100 or so google citation profile pages in here, now index the page manually using search console....when google crawls that page it will index those links..... Failing this try to manually login into the profile pages - make some changes and update them - then do the method above. comments are welcome, but the above has worked for me... PH PS - i made a correction as a I had previously mentioned YELP instead of YEXT. my mistake.
| DT36000 -
HELP! Google Local dropped!
Google drops the top trend site from their SERP. My blog also affected by it.
| fatetmpwcosl0 -
Local News or National News backlinking?
دیوار سبز یا گرین وال ( Green Wall ) ، دیواری است که بخشی از آن یا تمام آن دارای پوشش گیاهی است، و بسته به شرایط ممکن است در محیط داخل یا خارج ساختمان نصب گردد.
| Saman_Godini0 -
Incorrect Image is Displaying on Google My Business Knowledge Graph - Need Urgent Solution??
You cannot tell Google what Image you want to show it there. Things do not work that way. Ross
| RossKernez0 -
Is it legitimate to both ask and answer question in GMB
Hi there, I have seen people using this strategy and it is working so far. Ross
| RossKernez0 -
Website won't rank in home country (but does in others).
Still, after so many times, this problem happens with every home website. I have tried many methods of SEO to rank like Onpage and LInk building but face the problem.
| MonaLisa41 -
Best Practices for Businesses Considering Going Fully Remote
The best practice for a business site is to add the local business schema first. I tried this on my website.
| sjjani0 -
GMB for Auto Dealers - New Rules
Hi there, I think you can, but your GMBs have to be nested into each other. Please see attached photo CBULzDx
| RossKernez0 -
WEBSITE RANKING ISSUE
Hello there! I have two thoughts on this. Remember that rankings are not static. You mention ranking positions for your core terms, but where are you standing when you do these searches? Searchers around Toronto and North York are going to see different local and localized organic results based on their proximity to the place of business at the time of search. From my locale in the US, you are #1 in the local pack and #11 organically for your Toronto keyword phrase. Are you noticing a drop in traffic, leads, phone calls, form submissions? Those are the metrics that are typically best to determine whether a business is falling off. Visibility is something that has to be judged in relationship to competitors. If your business is going down, others are moving up. The key is to find out what competitors are doing that might be causing the rise of their assets in juxtaposition to the the fall of yours. Here's a link to a tutorial on doing a basic local competitive audit: https://moz.com/blog/basic-local-competitive-audit. It's a few years old now, but the basic idea is to stack up your metrics against those of your top competitors and uncover the factors on which they are winning. Have you done some audits of this kind for your most important phrases? Hope this helps, and please let me know if you have any further questions.
| MiriamEllis0 -
Google My Business - two locations but same name and phone
Hi Jepaul4, Thanks for asking your question. As long as the address and phone number for each location of your business is unique, do not worry about the name being the same. Google understands that a brand like McDonald's has thousands of locations with the same name at different addresses, and they will not consider your listings duplicates if they share a name but have different addresses and phone numbers, too. Hope this helps!
| MiriamEllis0 -
Adding Multiple Country Locations for Google Business Listings
Hi Ross, Thank you for confirming this - I was hoping this would be the case. I appreciate the help! Many thanks, Katarina
| Katarina-Borovska0