Seo Updates August 19 & 20, 2022

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Ensure Your Listings Are Safe w/ Top Reasons for Suspensions + Guaranteed Traffic Increase This Weekend

Happy Friday! 😃

If you have been wondering why your client’s Google listing has been suspended or need help with reinstatement, we’re here to help!

Our newest blog provides the top reasons listings get suspended + walks through the entire GBP suspension process and the steps to take to reinstate your listing.

Even if your clients’ listings are active, we recommend reviewing the top reasons for suspension to ensure your listings aren’t at risk…

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+ Get the secret sauce from 11 HIGHLY successful SEO’s and agency owners, many of whom run 6-figure agencies! They will be sharing strategies they’ve used to improve rankings, strengthen results, grow their agencies, and make more money. (watch the speaker’s videos below to see exactly what they’ll be sharing)

Watch the speaker videos below to hear what they plan on sharing…

Eldar Cohen will be talking about how to grow your agency to six-figures per month (like he did) with his presentation – The Wizard Way of Selling SEO Services

Terry Samuels will be talking about identifying & fixing issues after drops in rankings, traffic, or stagnation during his presentation – Forensic SEO: In’s, Out’s & How to Fix It

Allen works with high-profile clients to ensure the search results don’t harm the brand’s image. Whether they’re large scandals or small hiccups, Allen will show you how to push negative rankings past page 1 to ensure you control your client’s brand.

Brock Misner will be talking about data manipulation to rank higher during his presentation – Influencing Local Rankings Factors with User Engagement and Brand Presence

Victor Perez will be talking about how to beat large agencies (& any agency) by conveying your value and results during his presentation – How to Beat Large Agencies: Results & Client Acquistion

Jacob Kettner will be pulling back the curtain on the advanced automation processes that allow his agency to increase efficiency, scale faster, maintain better client relationships, and save money on payroll.

Bucky Helms will be talking about maximizing client retention and satisfaction during his presentation – How to Achieve Customer Success in Your Agency

We’re covering everything your agency needs to flourish in the 2022 Local Marketing Mastermind speaker topics…

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We have a limited number of discounted hotel rooms at the Hilton for the Local Marketing Mastermind! Make sure to get your room before they run out!

We hope to see you at this year’s mastermind in St. Petersburg, Florida!

To your success,
Chaz and the Entire Team

GBP (GMB Listing) Suspended:
Here’s What You Should Do To Reinstate

Did your listing get suspended? We’re here to help! This blog post goes through the entire suspension process and the steps to take to get your listing reinstated. Read the entire blog here!

We also provide free reinstatement help and free re-ranking help for any suspended listings currently using our GBP monthly services.

This Week in the Local SEO Community

Favorite SEO Tools

SERP Results Beta

If you’re looking for an affordable rank tracker (local & organic), this is it! We’ve built a better rank tracker with improve accuracy (& not a huge price tag). Sign-up for a beta test account and check it out for FREE!

Local Brand Manager

You can manage client listings, track local rankings, schedule posts, and easily perform local SEO audits. Plus, agencies love our easy-to-use dashboard for multi locations.

Local Viking

Your clients can easily understand the color-coded GeoGrids that plot listing visibility. You can manage all listings in one dashboard for easier reporting and schedule posts for them too.

Local Client Takeover

We love free training – LCT is filled with it! Check out Chaz’s updated Local SEO 2.0 Course, Link Mastery Course, and GMB SEO Specialist Course. We also give away the closed trainings during sales!

⚡ Resources for Agencies ⚡

Free Quarterly Webbys

Chaz and the team hold a free webinar each quarter to discuss what’s currently working for them. Our next webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, June 22nd.

Campaign & Link Recs

Find out what your client needs to rank with our free recommendations! We audit and research their current rankings, brand strength, and overall position.

Free Tools & Trainings

Save time and money with our free tools like SEO pricing calculator, tech audit, proposal generator, and free audit tools. Also find trainings & past webbys in our knowledge base.

SEO Testing Reports

The SEO Mad Scientist is constantly testing strategies, which we used to publish 12 months of tests in 2021 + Quarterly Testing Reports for this year!

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GBP Listing “Indexation” Test Update

FROM THE VAULT
Episode 154

Hosts: Chaz Edwards + Mike Milas + Bucky Helms

What we discussed this week…

✔️Google Business Profile Tests Expandable Menu In Web Search

✔️ July 2022 Google Product Reviews Update Kicked In on Friday Afternoon

✔️ Google Loading A New People Also Ask In The Footer Section Of Search

✔️ Tracking Tools Now Picking Up On The July 2022 Google Product Reviews Update Volatility?

> Watch the Latest SEO Vault episode to catch up on the most recent local update and so much more.

Answered: With CTR, is there a way to set up an automation so that new blog posts can automatically get some CTR?

Don’t forget The SEO Vault airs live on the Web 2.0 Ranker Facebook and YouTube every Thursday at 4 pm EST.

Interested in being a guest on the vault!? Sign up now
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⚡ Resources for Agencies ⚡

SEO Testing Reports

The SEO Mad Scientist is constantly testing strategies, which we used to publish 12 months of tests in 2021 + Quarterly Testing Reports for this year!

Free Tools & Trainings

Save time and money with our free tools like SEO pricing calculator, tech audit, proposal generator, and free audit tools. Also find trainings & past webbys in our knowledge base.

This Week in the Lab with SEO Mad Scientist

GBP Indexation: How Long Does it Take?

Welcome back, SEO mad Scientists. We missed you last week, but we are back this week with some exciting GBP test updates…

Let’s jump right into it with new GBP indexation tests…

The first part of these tests is basic, “How long does it take for a GBP to ‘index’?”

We began by creating a new listing (the one in last week’s update) and did very little on listing optimization. No services, no description, just the business name, business hours, and category…

The business name is branded and does not contain any local or keyword terms or local or keyword term variations…

We didn’t begin with any on-listing optimization. We only built a basic website with some relevant pages and inner linking. The website itself was not heavily optimised, mostly just mentioned various services keywords we are tracking…

Right Out the gate, we are not showing for our brand or ANY SEO terms…

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The website itself was put up on an old domain that was not indexed so upon putting up the GBP, the website we added to the listing was not indexed in Google’s search. We wanted to ensure everything was launched at the same time (within 24 hours)

For the first 48 hours, we didn’t have any visibility in Search. When searching for our exact brand name, we did not even see our GBP or website in organic or maps.

In about two and a half days we saw the listing official begin to show in search results for the Brand name in our tracking range.

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We did not show for ANY keywords on our website or anything else, but the exact category we listed on the listing began to show in maps. Very limited but obvious that upon the initial listing going live in SERPs, Google seems to specifically look at the brand name and business category as the primary “indexing” factors.

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We already assumed this to be true but did not know for sure or the exact time frames. From all possible keywords we are tracking, it’s important to note that the very first things Google showed us in SERPs for are the

In our other tests, we did not see a time period longer than 3 days for our listing to show in SERPs after going up.

There is a good chance that Google does not use the website for listing relevance initially even though we have seen evidence they do overall. Since we put the listing and the website live around the same time, we are also tracking the organic indexation and rankings of our website and upon the listing showing, the website itself is not indexed in organic search.

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If the onsite impacts the listing, then we assume that once our website is indexed, we would see impacts on the listing would occur. This makes us question is the organic index is considered at all when ranking the GBP, or if maps has its own separate way of indexing website content in regards to GBP listings.

We will continue to watch the organic indexation and let you know as we track how long it takes to see results.

Join us next week for another update on the website’s impact on rankings, as well as a look into another part of our GBP tests, GBP service “products” indexation tests…

If you remember from previous tests, we have seen the impact of GBP products on maps rankings, so in this test, we wanted to see if we could use products to influence rankings on service keywords.

See you next week. Happy testing!

Favorite SEO Tools

SERP Results Beta

If you’re looking for an affordable rank tracker (local & organic), this is it! We’ve built a better rank tracker with improve accuracy (& not a huge price tag). Sign-up for a beta test account and check it out for FREE!

Local Brand Manager

You can manage client listings, track local rankings, schedule posts, and easily perform local SEO audits. Plus, agencies love our easy-to-use dashboard for multi locations.

Local Viking

Your clients can easily understand the color-coded GeoGrids that plot listing visibility. You can manage all listings in one dashboard for easier reporting and schedule posts for them too.

Local Client Takeover

We love free training – LCT is filled with it! Check out Chaz’s updated Local SEO 2.0 Course, Link Mastery Course, and GMB SEO Specialist Course. We also give away the closed trainings during sales!

Don’t Miss Out on Our Biggest Updates

Opt-in to our Text Notficiations and you’ll get a 15% OFF coupon sent right to your phone!

But don’t worry about spam texts…
We save our text lists for the BIGGEST deals and even BIGGER announcements!

Access special deals + sale notifications
& never miss out on savings!

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