Creating a local business website that Google and your users love is not always a straight-forward task, especially if you are building your own! Even gorgeously designed websites can overlook the basics. Your website is just the start of the plethora of signals that Google looks at when deciding if your local website is worthy […]
How to Delete Free Yell Listings
There seems to be an influx of people landing here looking for details on how to delete free Yell listings. I know from experience cleaning up citations for local listings that Yell/Hibu don’t seem to have this information available on their site – or if it is, it is so far buried that no one […]
On-Page Local SEO: 10 Tips To Improve Your Local SEO [Infographic]
Local SEO Woes “I’m doing all this stuff and still can’t be found online, even for my business name!” Sound familiar? I hear it a lot from small business owners who are frantically Tweeting or Facebooking and generally chasing their own tail. When you look at their website you’ll often find one of two things: […]
How to Convert a Google Plus Brand Page to Google Local [Video]
There’s great news for local businesses who set up the wrong type of Google Plus Page. Google now allows you to convert a Google Plus Brand page to a Google Plus Local Page. This isn’t a merge of pages. The local data from your verified Google Plus Local Page is removed and transferred to a […]
Heartbleed, Schema and Spam, Oh My! (A Week Online, Round Up)
It’s been a while since I did a round up post. So much has gone on this week that can affect local businesses online, I thought it’s time to resurface the round up! Heartbleed Bug The big news last week is the secure web isn’t actually that secure. I’m not a techie or web security […]
How To Transfer Ownership Of Your Google Local Page [Video]
Did you know you can transfer ownership of your Google Local Page? One of the benefits of the upgrade to social pages on Google Plus is the transfer option. It’s come in very handy! (Yes, this works with non-local Plus Pages too) Here’s how – text and screenshots below the video How to Transfer Ownership […]
Google Places (+Local) Edit Info Warnings [Video]
Update Google Places Listing Or Lose It Back in February, Google sent emails to businesses telling them to update their Google Places listing or risk losing it. It turned out that this purge of local listings was aimed at Australian listings only. Post by My Local Business Online. True to their word, Google started removing […]