In this week’s video, I share a quick explanation of the new health and safety attributes in Google My Business and walk you through how to set them up. They’ve been rolled out for retail, food, and service industries, and they help potential customers see COVID-related safety information when they find you online.
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My guest on this episode of Suds & Search is Stephan Bajaio. Stephan is the Chief Evangelist and Co-founder of Conductor, a search and content intelligence platform that helps marketers create and optimize content to improve visibility online.
Stephan has a well-earned reputation for being one of the really good guys in our industry. He is an in-demand speaker, podcaster, and SEO expert. He co-hosts the extremely impressive podcast Search on Tap and the equally impressive webcast Search from Home.
His company, Conductor, puts on the C3 conference and the annual Searchie Awards.
Stephan has a gift for identifying problems. He has an innate sense of when things aren’t working right. I’m going to start our conversation asking him about some of those problems and how SEOs might begin to solve them.
In this week’s video, I share a simple yet not commonly known tip to help with any problems you might have with your Google My Business listing. Google has Community Help forums for each of its products, so whenever you have a problem with your GMB listing that you can’t solve, you should create a forum post. Watch the video for all the details…
My guest on this episode of Suds & Search is AJ Wilcox, Founder of B2Linked, a LinkedIn Ads Agency. AJ is an in-demand speaker, podcaster, course instructor, and author.
He is considered one of the world’s leading experts on LinkedIn ads. PPC Hero included him in their list of the top 25 influencers in the world for the past four years. He’s presented at SMX, Social Media Marketing World, Inbound, Heroconf, Pubcon, and many other industry conferences.
In this week’s episode, I explain how to add additional hours to your Google My Business listing for modified services such as curbside pickup, delivery, or senior hours. If you offer additional services, the “more hours” feature lets you display different hours of operation on your GMB profile to attract more customers. Watch and learn how easy it is to add to your listing!
For the final episode of 2020, I share our 10 most popular episodes of the year. I aggregated analytics data from Wistia (our video host), YouTube, Facebook, and LinkedIn to figure out which episodes were the most popular. Here’s the final list, along with links to each video:
This week, we’re taking a break from digital marketing tips… It’s almost Christmas, and my Halloween horror movie video was so popular, I thought it would be the perfect time to do another movie episode. So this week, I’m sharing my list of the top 10 Christmas movies, along with a fun bit of trivia for each one. Check out the list and let us know what you think!
My guest on our last episode of Suds & Search for 2020 is Justin Sanger. Justin is the Chief Revenue Officer and Equity Investor at OMG National. For over two decades, Justin has been a pioneer in small business digital marketing.
He founded LocalLaunch back in 2003. LocalLaunch offered Paid Search, SEO, and landing page optimization services way back in the early 2000s just as Google was emerging as the leading advertising channel for SMBs. LocalLaunch was acquired by RH Donnelley in 2006.
In this week’s episode, I walk through the steps for setting holiday hours in Google My Business. When you need to change your hours, or even set your business to be closed temporarily, you don’t have to change your standard hours in your GMB dashboard. If you use the holiday hours feature, you can set different hours for unique days, and on those days, the special hours will be displayed instead of your standard hours. Watch and learn how easy it is to set up!
My guest on this episode of Suds & Search is Mike Blumenthal. Mike is the Founding Partner of GatherUp and the Co-founder of LocalU. Mike is one of the most important voices in Local SEO. His motto is all local, all the time. It’s hard to think of anyone who has contributed more to the Local SEO community than Mike.