Twenty Years of Writing Down What Google Did This Time.

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Is MapMaker's Bad Data Grounds for Divorce?

We have been playing around with Google's MapMaker product a lot lately. While this won't come as a shock to the seasoned local search professionals out there let me tell you, it's a buggy…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Yes Virginia, Publishing Does Help SEO...

When you have been practicing SEO for years, you sometimes take the basics for granted. Then they hit you smack dab in the face and it's like a breath of fresh air. Above is this blog's organic…

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DanBlog

When It Comes to Google MapMaker, Don't Take No for an Answer

Do you find your edits in Google MapMaker often get denied? Ever since Maptivists shed some light on the exploits that were possible using MapMaker, it has been harder and harder to get legitimate…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

15 Local SEO Predictions for 2015

And you won't believe what happens next... Google will lose market share in Local (trying not to repeat myself here so check out the link to Streetfight for more thoughts on GOOG, Facebook, Apple,…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Don't Trust Results in Google MapMaker

An auto dealer client's GMB page was showing up in Google with a different domain (the car maker's - Ford.com) attached to it only for certain queries. I started looking through all of the usual…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Social Stats Are Worthless

On my 10 Things I Learned About Local SEO in 2014 post on SearchEngineLand, I forgot to include #11: Social Sharing Stats Are Worthless. I use to obsess about social share numbers on each of my…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Apple Maps' Business Data Quality Strategy

Last week, when we uncovered that Apple Maps had cut deals with at least ten new companies (e.g. Yext, Location3, Yodle, etc.) to provide business listings data, I got a few emails asking what the…

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DanArticles

An Agency Client Started Using This Local SEO Audit Template And You'll Never Guess What Happened Next

Local SEO audits are tricky and time consuming. Our audit template walks you through the process including website, links, citations & local profiles.

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Apple Maps Rejects Home-Based Businesses

It's Apple Maps week over here. Just wanted to point you over to my latest post on AMM, Apple Maps Is Not Intended To Be A General Business Directory, my rant on why I think Apple Maps should…

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Andrew ShotlandBlog

Apple Maps "Announces" New U.S. Business Listings Data Providers

Just posted this on the Apple Maps Marketing blog, but it's too big a deal to not put here as well: At the launch of Apple Maps Connect, we submitted an inquiry about submitting a client with a…

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