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I'd say no, build a website & create a separate GMB account that links to your website would be a good start. Outranking competitors is a mid to long-term investment in SEO which factors more than just website architecture & GMB.

I recommend that you keep the 2018 page & guide update the copy to reference the new 2019 guide.

I've never known social media account names to be an SEO factor, as long as the business details such as business name, phone number, postal address, web address etc are consistent; you should be fine

You can add 5 campaign in SEOmoz for tracking your competitors, but:

• If you change competitors, you lose any historical data for any (old) competitor you replace
• you can't add more competitors to a campaign once an initial limit has been set, so I couldn't go from 3 to 5 competitors in a campaign I updated recently

Whos website?

If it's your site the Google Analytics or Search Console will give you that data.

If its someone else then, as effectdigital detailed use something like SEM Rush or Ahrefs

Hi there,

Whats the Plugin called, Is there a way to add Nofollow tags to the links to see if you can bump up your score back to 99?

Hi there,

Hi there you can update multiple locations to one account - https://support.google.com/business/answer/3370250?hl=en

If you want to create & clean up GMB account for each franchise, then it's going to be a manual, laborious process.

It all depends on how the franchise owner wants to present themselves to the market.

Hello,

Personally, I wouldn't ignore any SEO changes, I'd ask your SEO company to itemise the changes & provide a rationale for those updates.

I've recently had a client that lost all of thir DA & took a steep dive in organic traffic, as a result of another company's lack of attention to their SEO campaign management.

Hi there, depending on the CMS you're using you should consider adding 301 redirects as part if the site build

Hi there, I recommend contacting whenever your hosting with to help you to implement redirects.