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Visibility Cut in Half Locally by Obeying Googles Rules

Scott — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:09:11 +0000

This is just quick update to show that my Google Places impressions over the past 30 days are less than half of what they were the previous month. This was the result of following the new Google guidelines that require local service businesses without a storefront to check a box that says “This business serves [...]

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Service Business – Bad SEO Advice

Scott — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:10:01 +0000

I’ve been advising others about their search presence since 2002, and this is the first time I recall ever telling someone to do something that could ultimately hurt them. Please consider this a “retraction” to my prior advice, and read it carefully. For years I’ve believed that local service businesses should be visible on Google [...]

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New Google Fairness Algorithm

Scott — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 07:01:21 +0000

In a stunning move, even as the dust settles from their deindexing of some blog networks last week, Google is announcing a brand new ranking algorithm designed to level the playing field for domains in competitive industries. Each year, Google changes its search algorithm 400 to 600 times. While most of these changes are minor, every few [...]

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Google’s Local Policy is Stupid

Scott — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:48:38 +0000

Last night I did a search on Google because my wife had her car window smashed by some Portlandia hooligans while she was watching the Central Catholic High School play. The first result for “emergency auto glass repair” was Glass Doctor, and it was a combined local listing, so I picked up the phone and [...]

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Local Search – Mistake or Cleverness?

Scott — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:32:17 +0000

Doing a little bit if research, I noticed what I thought was odd behavior in Google local, taking me to directories instead of to a business, so I immediately jumped to a conclusion (imagine that!) and Twittered about it, pinging @davidmihm and @chiropractic Michael looked into it… and David thought it was odd too, so [...]

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How to Get Fake Reviews

Scott — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:34:27 +0000

You MUST know that Google can instantly tell whether a certain Google user who just left a review is a “real” user or not, right? Google has access to everything a user does from their web browsing history to their Gmail habits, and they have for years. They even know where you live, so creating [...]

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Google Boost Is Now AdWords Express

Scott — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:15:49 +0000

It looks like Google Boost has undergone a name change to AdWords Express, but it appears everything else has remained the same. (update 7/26 – Google just announced the change) This morning while logging in to a client’s Google Places account, instead of seeing “create a Boost ad” or “See my Boost Dashboard” I’m seeing [...]

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Google Loves a Good Scrape

Scott — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:47:45 +0000

If you look at the Wikipedia definition of a scraper website, it says “A scraper site is a spam website that copies all of its content from other websites”. Well Google has a new project, that in my opinion, is basically just a well done Google scraper. Over the past dozen years or so, the [...]

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Google Has Feet on the Street

Scott — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 01:08:48 +0000

I got a phone call today, that began “I’m with Google…” and of course I was highly skeptical. I take marketing calls for several clients, and this is the standard opening line for multiple unscrupulous SEO companies. After just a minute, I realized it was the real thing, and he said he was part of [...]

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Threatdown | Removal from Google Index

Scott — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:04:39 +0000

This morning I got an e-mail regarding a domain from Google Webmaster Tools, pointing out that “…some of your pages were using techniques that are outside our quality guidelines”. Wow! What the…? It went on to say that “pages from yourdomain.com are scheduled to be removed temporarily from our search results for at least 30 [...]

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