I was alerted via email this morning by the wonderful Marie Haynes that over the weekend (beginning Thursday according to Search Engine Roundtable) it looks like Google has a bug where some businesses had a lot of their pages wiped from Google (technically "removed from Google's index"). This means that your rankings could have been affected. Say you check your rankings today and you are not ranking where you usually are. You check a few pages deeper on Google and still can't find Read More

I get asked all the time, "Why am I not ranking well?" It's a tough question to pin down but after the hundreds of cases I've looked at, almost every time the reason falls into one of the following 12 categories which I've ranked below from most likely to least likely. Hopefully this helps! Disclaimer: this article is meant to help customers of our business listing service, Local Listing Ninja, troubleshoot their ranking issues. If you're not a customer, feel free to read this article Read More

Google's index is by far one of the most important things a local business should understand because of how much it can effect them. Yet most local businesses don't know anything about it (we've surprisingly found that most internet marketing agencies don't either). So, what is Google's index and how does it affect you as a local business? Let's jump in. Read More