u/LocalSEOguy24 — reddlx

What a difference 30 days can make

Absolutely massive month, but before anyone starts yelling that I’m a witch who should be burned at the stake, I can only take so much credit for the jump.

Yes, I’ve been doing the regular local SEO work: consistent posting, citation building, audits, and the usual cleanup. But the biggest factor, in my opinion, was getting five negative reviews removed from the profile.

That may not sound like much, but when a profile only has around 50 reviews, that’s roughly 10% of the total review base. A lot of these reviews didn’t make sense, and I genuinely believe they may have come from a competitor or spam operation. One of them even mentioned a completely different company.

We reported them, submitted appeals, and escalated the issue with a Google Product Expert. I highly recommend that approach for anyone dealing with obvious spam reviews. My guide level is pretty high, which may have helped, but based on my experience, you usually only get one real shot at an appeal per review before Google stops paying attention.

u/LocalSEOguy24 — 1 day ago

▲ 42 r/localseo

A beautiful month for a home remodeling GBP

Before I get hate messages saying how this is impossible and no way, no how, let me be clear in saying this isn't month 1. We've been working on this for maybe 2-3 months now, and we finally got our address officially approved. This, plus all the active posting, profile adjustments, citation building, and even website changes, has gone an extremely long way for us.

u/LocalSEOguy24 — 4 days ago

▲ 2 r/smallbusiness

How do you deal with clients who don't respect your expertise?

I have a client who does not listen to anything I say, and I'm not really sure what to do at this point. You guys have probably all had a client like this before, I call him mr internet where he reads an article or two online and now he's suddenly an expert. Mind you I've been optimizing Google Business Profiles for years and still have things to learn but one facebook link and a buzzfeed article (throwback mention) and now all the sudden he probably thinks I should be paying him.

Take this most recent example, he had an old Google Business Profile that ranked extremely well and more importantly had an address that no longer belonged to him but Google was still recognizing. Now at the time I told him listen I'm not advising you to game the system but at the end of the day if it aint broke don't fix it especially when we're ranking number in the local area and have over 100+ reviews at the moment. Well what does he do? he instead decides to attempt to change the address to somewhere down the block in the hopes that Google will auto-approve it because he read "Tips and tricks to get a GBP approved without video verification"..... Well it didn't work, profile is now suspended/needs video verification, and I want to say I told you so but I'm just happy it wasn't his only location driving calls. I'm really lost for words on what to do here, I guess I can always just say its not my business but when he's asking for call data or ranking checks on his profiles and we're not appearing because of stuff like this I don't want to be the one he'll blame. What do you guys do in situations like these?

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u/LocalSEOguy24 — 8 days ago

▲ 20 r/localseo

Huge Month Over Month Growth

I swear, Google has been playing games with me, moving my rankings up, down, sideways, and practically every direction it could go, but recently we've seen a massive jump in rankings. My guess is that part of this comes from the core content update since we've been creating a ton of local content on the actual website and within our GBP post, but it also may have negatively impacted our competition. Is anybody else seeing such large jumps?

u/LocalSEOguy24 — 13 days ago

▲ 16 r/localseo

I have a client who is ranking really well in his local area for many of his main service keywords. At this point, though, we’ve reached a stage where there isn’t much obvious room left to grow locally, and the client has made it clear that he isn’t especially interested in expanding beyond what he already has.

Of course, we can continue focusing on maintenance, new service offerings, and protecting the rankings he already has. But in the bigger picture, I genuinely think opening another office, if it’s done correctly with the right research behind it, could create more long-term growth than almost any billboard or ad campaign.

I’ve already suggested this to him and presented the research, including age statistics, financials, potential search volume, and other market data. Still, he doesn’t seem interested.

What do you guys do in these situations? Like I said, I can always move into maintenance mode, but I feel like there’s a real opportunity he may be missing.

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u/LocalSEOguy24 — 24 days ago