Getting found by people searching nearby: Google Business Profile, citations, service areas and the map results.
Relocating, or changing your phone number, is the fastest way to undo years of local search work, and almost nobody plans for it. The information is scattered across dozens of sites, and the ones you forget keep telling Google the … Read the article
If customers come to you, your address belongs on your Google Business Profile. If you go to them, it usually doesn’t. Getting this wrong is one of the more common reasons a profile gets suspended, and one of the easier … Read the article
Three businesses get shown in the map results. Everyone else is on the “more places” screen that most people never tap. That block of three is the local pack, sometimes called the map pack or the 3-pack, and understanding how … Read the article
If your business name, address and phone number appear differently across the web, Google has to guess which version is right. It usually guesses badly, and your business drops out of the map results while a competitor with tidier listings … Read the article
What are Citations? Citations are mentions of your business Name, Address and Phone number commonly referred to as NAP. This information is displayed on sites such sites as Google My Business (formerly Google Places), Facebook, Superpages, Yellowpages, Yelp, etc., but … Read the article