Christian SEO Guys

One of the most important things you can do as a local organization is setup listings…lots and lots of listings.  Listings both provide more places for people to find you online and they can boost your search rankings.  Listings, however, often come with another thing…reviews, where any person can come along and leave a comment. […]

Google has removed the reviews from the Google Places listings which were being scraped from other review sites like Insiderpages.com, Judysbook.com, etc.  For now, at least, Google will only be displaying the reviews people have left on the actual Google Places listings.  Instead of showing the reviews from other sites, Google will have links after […]

Google has announced that listings in Google Maps will now include descriptive phrases associated with the listing. “Google Maps search results in the U.S. and Great Britain will include some of the phrases which are most frequently used to describe those places. These phrases come from sources all across the web, such as reviews, web pages […]

In last Wednesday’s article, “What Are The Most Important Local SEO Factors?“, I wrote about the most important Local SEO factors as described in a survey from David Mihm in which he asked 33 SEO professionals a series of questions about local SEO.  Those are the things to do, but there are also some things […]

Local SEO is crucial for local businesses and organizations.  Local businesses who do not make the jump from off-line marketing to online marketing will suffer the consequences.  Churches and ministries who don’t are missing out.  So, what do you need to do to show up in the local search results? Local SEO is growing in importance […]