Want to Know About The Definitive Local SEO Ranking Factors?
Then come check out my session at SMX East 😉 On Tuesday, I’m going to go over what the data truly says about ranking in local pack results. Do you need to focus on link building? Is there even such a thing as a “#1” ranking factor? What value do traditional local signals, like citations, […]
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Replace Your Crappy Store Locator Already
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Should Anyone Even Care If Google Now Powers SIRI Results?
Now that Apple has switched from Bing to Google for SIRI’s web search results, I have been trying to wrap my head around the implications for our clients. In keeping with Apple’s secretive ways, it’s not exactly clear there are any. Here’s a voice query result for “outdoor seat cushions”: The results are typically […]
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SEO and Voice Search Goes Together Like Sardines and Peanut Butter
Voice search is all the rage. To hear it from a marketing or search technologist, the voice search revolution is on us. Lowering barriers to access and radically changing the way we interact with devices. There is only one problem, take it away Dr. Malcolm I hate to break it to everyone, but voice search […]
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Local Mobile Searchers Don’t Need Your Stinking Website…Or Do They?
I was having an interesting conversation with an agency client this weekend about why mobile traffic had been flat/down to their retailer clients’ location pages since the end of 2015. My initial response touched on part of the answer: “I suspect they are experiencing a change in traffic to their site as a result of […]
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Local SEO Guide Joins the Inc. 5000!
Pretty crazy. Not much to say other than thank you to all of our fantastic clients and to our fantastic team – Dan, Ashley, Jessica, Amber, Steven, Christa & Jill – who collectively have made the past few years quite an experience. We’re honored to be included with all these amazing businesses. There are a […]
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Why Is Our Home Page Traffic Soft?!
That’s what a retailer client asked me a few days ago. It was odd because before last week, their home page traffic was killing it. But a quick look at the home page traffic in Google Search Analytics looked like a text-book case of “softness”: Besides the double-black-diamond slope, what was really troubling about this […]
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Facebook is Home Of Authentic, High Quality Content
I mean, just look at this ad I got trying to help me cash in on government solar credits: I’ve been looking into getting a solar hookup for our house for a while, great targeting Facebook! But wait, I did a double take when I saw the ad because: How odd to see a promoted […]
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Twitter Is Dying. #Period.
Growing up, we had a TV that got UHF, sort of. You had to find a channel that seemed to have reception and then hold the round antennae while doing various Bikram Yoga poses to get it to work. I don’t see a lot of people buying TV services for their UHF features these days, […]
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When SEO Invades Your Privacy…Policy URL
via GIPHY I just discovered this morning that an e-commerce client had changed its privacy policy URL (thanks SEORadar!) but had not bothered to redirect their old privacy policy URL to the new one. I guarantee my in-house client had no idea this change was happening (we do have a lot in common). I imagine […]
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In-House SEOs & Outside SEO Consultants Have A Lot In Common
Last night I attended a gathering of mostly in-house SEOs in San Francisco, many from brands we all know. One of the goals of the event was to provide an open forum to share some of our current SEO challenges to get feedback from each other. It was amazing, or perhaps not, how remarkably consistent […]
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How Is Locadium Different From Yext & Other Citation Monitoring Services?
One of the more common questions we have received since launching Locadium, our new GMB monitoring service, is how it differs from Yext and similar services that monitor NAP consistency. The answer is pretty simple – Locadium monitors GMB changes and alerts you when it detects a change or a dupe listing that has been […]
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Doesn’t Everyone Hate it When Service Companies Get Involved in Software?
Local SEO Guide is happy to announce Locadium, a Google My Business reporting system built from the ground up for multi-location brands and agencies. According to a recent poll of Local SEO Sherpa’s, 78% of them have problems with Google changing information on GMB profiles. Now I know you are saying: “Dan, there is the […]
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The SEO Monopoly Hangover
Ben Thompson’s post this week on Microsoft’s Monopoly Hangover touched a nerve. Thompson’s thesis is that companies that are monopolies tend to face considerable problems once the monopoly ends. He boils these problems down to: Nature “The great thing about a monopoly is that a company can do anything, because there is no competition; the bad […]
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@Dr_Pete, let’s make a bet on HTTPs sites on Page 1
I would easily take this bet. Today, tomorrow and twice on Sunday. Now, I wasn’t at MozCon, and I didn’t see Dr. Pete’s preso. Just the Twitter stream. So even knowing how Twitter and games of telephone can distort someone’s thesis, I would STILL take this bet. And the reason why is simple, people always […]
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SEO Radar Is The Prozac of SEO Tools
It’s a bit awkward to write about a company we have an investment in without sounding like a total salesman, but I am going to give it a try. Even if we had no interest in SEO Radar (full disclosure: we do), I’d like to think I’d still be writing this. Cause it saved my […]
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Please Google Do NOT Rank Us For This Keyword or This Keyword or This Keyword…
We are working with a mattress retailer who would like to show up higher for mattress brand queries like “Tempurpedic mattress”. So I thought it might be helpful to see what types of pages currently rank for that query. Here are the top ranking URLs. Check out result #4: Here’s a link to the query […]
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Hey #MozCon – Local SEO Guide Welcomes Ashley Berman Hale & Jessica Baker To The Team!
Couldn’t resist a little hashtag-jacking… This is one of those posts where I #humblebrag about having been too busy to post much this year. The demand for our services and the complexity of some of our engagements ha…er…must…stop…the…marketingspeak… What I’m really trying to say is two awesome people have joined the Local SEO Guide team […]
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Pouring One Out For Rand Fishkin
So Rand is “stepping away” from Moz… When I started trying to figure out SEO around 2003, I had no idea what I was doing. As I recall I stumbled onto a few voices that helped me start to make sense of things – some of the more memorable were Andy Beard, Aaron Wall and Rand Fishkin. Each […]
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Wix SEO Tip: Wix Is Obnoxious
I was just looking for info on a local restaurant to hit in Pleasanton tonight and noticed this obnoxious message from Wix: Even if Tri Valley Bistro has a free Wix site, is this any way to treat a customer? Do you think Tri Valley Bistro’s customers either would be interested in creating a Wix […]
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