Twenty Years of Writing Down What Google Did This Time.

What we learn doing SEO for real clients. 1,311 posts since 2007.

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

NAP HUNTER LIVES!

Almost seven years ago today, LSG released its first-ever free tool, NAP Hunter. NAP Hunter was a free Chrome extension that "basically runs a set of standard N.A.P. queries through Google so you…

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Tess VoecksBlog

How To Build a Freelance Management System

Get your freelance management out of your inbox and into a robust and integrated project management system.

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Technical SEO Isn't Dead, It's More Like Walking Dead

And what I mean by that is Google has figured out how to automate a lot of the technical SEO things we used to take for granted as the domain of the technical SEO practitioner. That metaphor makes…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Local News Broadcasters Losing Billions While Google & Facebook Gaining

BIA Advisory Services reached out to me a few weeks ago for some feedback on a study about how the big online news platforms were affecting the businesses of local news broadcasters. In their…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

April 2021 Google SERP Features: Advertisers Pulling Back?

For all you Local Pack-o-Meter watchers, you may recall that last month we saw an increase in the presence of both Ads and Shopping Boxes and chalked that up to business optimism about the…

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ChimonasBlog

Largest Contentful Paint & Diagnosing Googlebot's Render Budget

In this post I’ll share a few methods to investigate Google’s rendering and how I feel that relates to LCP.

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Hey Google My Business, We're Not In Kansas Anymore!

In fact, we never have been in Kansas, but Google seems to disagree. In November 2020, Google suddenly decided that Local SEO Guide, Inc, a business located in Pleasanton, CA, was actually located…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

(Google Search Console + Regex)|(GSC API)?

Hey @methode any chance regex filters coming to the GSC Search Analytics report any time soon? — Andrew Shotland (@localseoguide) August 15, 2015 Well it finally happened. Google Search Console's…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

March 2021 Google SERP Feature Changes Signal Recovery?

This is the first in a monthly series of updated Local Pack-O-Meter data. Each month we will report on the changes we see in Google SERP features across ~60M U.S. search queries (graciously…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

??????Leadferno

Leadferno is the new way to manage all of your customer text messages in one app. You really should sign up for the beta.

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