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Benefits of "Buffer Websites" Marketing for Real Estate Firm.
Hi Carlos It sounds funny to me. Use the content and post regular updates to your site (daily, weekly) and start building an email list where you can get genuine traffic and inbound links coming to your site. Use social sites to promote your unique content and drive people to your site because you have compelling content. Like Egol said, if you invest in building up these other sites and Google penalizes them you will have lost your investment. Hope this helps, Anthony B Biondo Creative biondocreative.com
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Google Reviews
Hi Carlos, Good thread! You're dealing with 2 separate issues, as I see it. Issue 1 - Your customer shouldn't be leaving you back-to-back reviews on any platform. If you know this customer and can ask him to remove one of his reviews, that would be wise. Issue 2 - The fact that both locations are no longer showing in the local pack for your search term may have nothing to do with your customer's odd review activity. Rather, it may have to do with competition. Unless you have few competitors, it's not terribly common to have more than 1 location show in the same pack for a product or service search. So, just looking for 'printing houston', Google may choose to only show your business once, regardless of you having 2 locations. Branded searches are different. If I look up 'Whole Foods Houston', Google is likely to show me multiple Whole Foods locations all in the same pack. So, you may simply be dealing with the presence of competition in your city, in which case, thinking about this from a hyperlocal standpoint may be your best bet. For more on this, see: http://moz.com/blog/mastering-serving-the-user-as-centroid That being said, it's always wise to keep an eye on your reviews and if a customer has somehow gotten the wrong idea about helping you by posting multiple reviews, outreach to them would be very smart. It wouldn't be good if Google wrongly decided this was some sort of spammy campaign on the part of your business. You can also petition Google now to have a review removed: http://blumenthals.com/blog/2015/04/03/new-google-support-option-offers-a-form-to-contest-reviews/ Hope this helps!
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