Service Area Businesses: Are they at a disadvantage on Google Maps? We'll try to find out whether hiding an address can hurt your rankings.
Persuaded.io Version 1.6 Released This is a quick post to walk through some of the major new features available in version 1.6 of Persuaded.io.
GMB Winners Case Study: Dominating SERPs for NYC Dental In the ultra-competitive SEO landscape of NYC, how did the number one result for dentists come to dominate Google Maps?
Google My Business Finding Local Link Gaps Using Python automation to perform a local SEO link analysis.
How high can you go with no website and no reviews? How often do GMB listings with no website or reviews end up in the Map Pack? Let's find out!
GMB Case Study: The Chicago Law Firm Market In this GMB & Google Maps case study, I dive into how the number one law firm listing in Chicago captured the local search market for attorneys.
GMB Category Explorer GMB Category Explorer can help you uncover the right combination of categories for your GMB listing.
Automating the Fight Against Keyword Stuffing Fighting keyword stuffing on Google Maps can feel like "whack-a-mole" when spammers put the keywords right back in. An automated workflow can help.
Google My Business Building a Machine Learning Pipeline to Classify Google Reviews Reviews are full of insights for your business, but they're locked away in hard to parse text. Learn how to build your own machine learning pipeline to unlock hidden patterns.
GMB Scanner Update Released The latest version of GMB Scanner has just been released! The major new feature is the duplicate attributes view.
Helping Clients Avoid GMB Suspensions GMB suspensions can really hurt. To make matters worse, small businesses don't always understand how suspensions happen, or what to do about them. We made a visual explainer to help.
A Brand New Tool for Local Review Analysis My next free tool, the ReAnalyzer, is almost ready! I'm excited to share a demo of it, and also ask for beta testers.
Finding the Best SEO Company for Your Local Business Search engine optimization is a crucial component of your internet marketing strategy -- it's also one of the most difficult to master.
Using Data Science to Analyze Local Reviews Use Python to summarize thousands of reviews and discover trends at a glance.
Data Studio and Persuaded.io Google Data Studio is a great way to share reports with your local SEO clients. They don't need an account in a separate tool, and sharing a report can be as easy as sending them a link.
How strong a signal is proximity for your business? Proximity is well acknowledged as one of the strongest Google Maps ranking factors, but do you know exactly how much of a factor it is for your business?
GMB Spam Survey What might lurk behind those law firm listings on Google Maps? A survey of spam in the legal industry.
GMB Spam Fighting Tips Spammers on Google Maps draw clients and customers away from those businesses that are playing by the rules.
Spam Fighting Stop Crap on the Map with Google Sheets & Apps Scripting Fighting GMB spam can clear room for your clients to rank higher. Spam is not only common, but it ranks! In this post I'll show you how to use Google Sheets to find and report spammers.
Introducing the Spam Scanner Spam is very prevalent in some categories, and might even outrank your own business! In this video I'll introduce the new Spam Scanner and talk about how it can help solve this problem.
Link Building Build Local Links with Google Apps Scripting Building up a solid link profile is a cornerstone of local SEO, but it can be a time consuming and tedious process. In this post I'll show you how to automate this quickly and efficiently with Google Sheets.
Coding Using Computer Vision in SEO Using computer vision to help identify when businesses may be keyword stuffing their GMB listings.
