You’ve done everything right, but you still aren’t showing up where you want to be in the Google map pack. Local competitors who shouldn’t be outranking you ARE.
And every day you’re not showing up, you’re losing out on a lot of money.
In this video, I’m talking about the biggest local SEO ranking factors that you should be focusing on most, including what’s a waste of time…and the #1 thing you can do to land at the top of the map – even if you were to ignore everything else.
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Applying the strategies mentioned in the video can certainly help improve your local business's ranking on Google. Remember, it's all about consistency and quality.
brother you deserve 42M views not 42k. Glad you made this video 😇😍
I think you really missed the beat on geo tag images.
What we've seen across all of our clients is that uploading cell phone (geo tagged) photos to the clients GBP has really moved rankings and pushed proximity.
Love the local SEO advice, especially for Google Business Profile. Following these tips will skyrocket visibility and bring in more customers. Thanks!
I agree with most of what you said, but for some reason Facebook is a ranking factor.
I don't know why or how, but I saw it happen to a local business that was dropping lots of videos and activity on Facebook.
Maybe they just stirred up the ole branding trick?
It's a pleasure to watch.
Thanks for the video!)
I’m a photographer using a service area (no physical location), I appear at the top with appropriate key word search only if you search near my physical location, despite using service area with no address listed.
Thanks, really useful content!
I live in apartment but i have team web designers working remotely, when i try to verify my business profile it asks me for video, can i just send my home office? would it work?
this video itself is a goldmine if you sell it as a service
It might sound confusing, but you can never truly outrank local businesses on Google, and they can’t always outrank you either. Here’s why: Google promotes local businesses based on proximity. Even if your Google My Business profile isn’t the best, if a customer is just 100 meters away from you, Google will likely promote your business, maybe not first, but possibly second.
For instance, if Marta is only 100 meters away from me, I might appear in the first place in her search results. However, if Roger is 2 kilometers away at the same time, I could appear much lower, maybe around the 6th or 7th place, or possibly even lower.
great video
You can change your business name with a simple DBA and submitting that to Google. Don’t need to change everything. Also if you build citations with the DBA name; when the Google employee looking at the change request checks, they usually will just approve it based on other sites and the DBA which cost like $99.
Great content!
Seo or Ads?
Great job on this video! The advice works well, especially with a boost from Backlink Fu.
Your SEO advice is top-notch! Adding Backlink Fu really supercharged my results.
The video is great, informative!
What do you think about listing the location in the name if you have multiple locations? Technically it is accepted by guidelines, but seems to favor franchises vs small businesses that have several locations in a bigger area.
BEST GBP VIDEO I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE. You put everything so easy to understand. Thanks for this gem of a video.
These are some really solid local-SEO tips! Largely low-hanging fruit but those fruits are the tastiest and easy to grab!
Very solid foundational stuff for anyone who wants their local business to rank higher in search
Well explained too, but that's what you'd expect from a Wes McDowell video.
Thank you for that VERY HELPFUL content.
Thanks bro. That’s really valuable.
I don’t agree with the backlinks though. Backlinks are very difficult to get but if you get them from websites that have high authority, your website would fly to the top rankings.
What about Local Business Schema? Its help or not.
If you have 2 locations in separate cities… should you GBP link to your home page or your location landing pages?
Thank you so much for making this video! So helpful and easy to follow.
On my GBP, how to I change my Online Retail to Service Business?
Google's leaked info says keywords in business name can actually hurt your rankings.
08:59 – Complete GBP
13:45 – Choose correct Categories
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I would like to send you an African art painting. You have helped me
Hi A question here. Did you create a video about “ Mexico is about to get rich” ( All parts)”
The narrator of thi video and you are the same person?! I apologize he has the same voice. Thank you for your videos help so much
Wait did you say to internally link from pages TO the home page? Or the opposite?
Google is broken, I no longer use it.
It has got to the stage where every time I search I get dozens of answers from Reddit and Quora, none of which are useful. Or paid adverts.
I've switched to Firefox, which gives you a choice of which search engine to use. And if that doesn't work, I'll go somewhere else. But it won't be Google.
Even YouTube is better for a lot of stuff! Or Google Maps!
Hi Wes im a long time follower i have a question.
No matter what i do i cant complete my google business profile 100% I filled out every aspect of my profile and it still says 90% complete. When i press on the complete my profile google keeps asking me to sign up to google advertising and they are giving me a $400 voucher.
Is that what i need to do to complete my profile 100% is there a way of telling what section is missing because i cant find it?
Doesn’t citations include backlinks?
How to speed up link indexing in 2024, except for telegram bots, what are the most popular ways now?
Interesting how you make backlinks like a bad apple, like do it when you have time. I just dealt with a local business who has literally done everything on their GMB, like what you said, perfectly optimized onpage, and yet it was all the way down and drowned by competitors. The moment I start hitting it with backlinks, nothing else, lo and behold, it gets to top 3.
just incredible the amount of information!
I wish I could smash the like button a hundred times. Would love more site critique videos like this.
As far as business names go, does that include making sure you have the "LLC" portion of your business name? I see alot of my competition doesnt have the LLC in there
Re: service areas @7:15 ever since the March updates, I have seen service area contractors with no address showing up in map pack ABOVE many GBP with a physical address. Mostly I have seen this in the roofing industry. Go look right now (search for roofing + city) and you will see it.
Would i add a link in the services details to the corresponding page on my site?
Whats your favorite citation service? I used yext once but it was pricey so i didnt renew. Ive done a bunch of citations manually but dont really have the time.
Google also screws you on filtering 5 star reviews with BS algorythm excuses. I'm missing 8 of them
Google suspended my B Page. Will that affect my website organic search results ? We do business nationwide, very little business at home.
Can we hire you to do this for us