Newsletter #42

Helpful Support Numbers to Call on the Top U.S. Citation Sites

October 26, 2018

Whitespark's Monthly Local Search Newsletter

Local InsiderOctober 2018

 Helpful Support Numbers to Call on the Top U.S. Citation SitesSupport emails, contact forms, and FAQ pages are often all you need when it comes to resolving business listing issues on the top U.S. citation sites for local SEO. However, having a customer support number to call can be super helpful as well, especially if the site’s support team is somewhat–or even completely–unresponsive to listing requests via email or online request forms.

We've put together a list of the best support numbers for some of the top citation sites in the US, as well as provided tips and instructions to make it easy for you to quickly fix any incorrect citations for your business.

From the BlogFacebook Recommendations Monitoring & ReportingWe’ve updated our Reputation Builder reports to include review monitoring for Facebook Recommendations. With the recent changes to Facebook from Reviews to Recommendations it’s important that you don’t miss out on valuable customer feedback and reputation data.

Whitespark’s Super Fantastic Guide to Optimizing Google My BusinessWe’ve made a few updates to our GMB business guide to include:

  • Recent happenings with Reserve with Google.

  • A support section for when you need direct help with an issue.

  • A new tool that grades your listing and points out what you need to do to get it to 100% optimized.

Last Chance

Gain Lifetime Access to the PPC Mastery Course for $199We teamed up with Jeffalytics to offer the his awesome PPC Mastery Course at a massively discounted rate of $199 (this is 60% off the standard price, and available only until October 31st)... If you want to get better at Google Ads, have an immediate impact on your website traffic and conversion rate, then this course is ideal for you.

Around The Web

Is your Google My Business listing 100% fully optimized? Check out what your grade is with ThriveHive's new GMB reporting tool. You'll get an instant diagnostic assessment of your profile and recommendations for what you need to do to perfect your listing.    

Don't miss out on the SEO value of Google My Business posts. If your site is on WordPress take advantage of this plugin that allows you to auto-post directly to your GMB listing. Marketers are seeing increased traffic and conversions from implementing Posts into their local strategy.  

As anticipated - transactional capabilities in local search results, specifically Google My Business listings, are being expanded to include call-to-actions directly in the Local 3-Pack results. This is the first time we are seeing Reserve with Google show up in SERP results. Check out what this latest update from Mike Blumenthal, and the bigger picture with the latest roll out of GMB features.  

Did you know: "If there are multiple instances of the same document on the web, the highest authority URL becomes the canonical version. The rest are considered duplicates." Check out Dan Petrovic's discussion and test. 

If you couldn't make it to Pubcon Las Vegas this year, here are the highlights from keynote speaker Garry Illyes. Do you have the basics covered (#1-13?), if not these are a great starting point to optimizing your site for search. 

If you work in local search, then you should regularly be checking the Search Query report in Google My Business Insights. Joy Hawkins explains why this is important, and how this data can help you gauge where to you should be directing your efforts. 

Do you know how to use Google Data Studio to create a client-friendly local marketing results dashboard? If your answer is no, then learn how in this Whiteboard Friday with our friend Dana DiTomaso.

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