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Some Facebook Pages are missing Reviews

Filed in Social Media, Word of Mouth by Matt McGee on October 24, 2017 178 Comments
Some Facebook Pages are missing Reviews

UPDATE, AUGUST 24, 2018: Facebook is in the process of changing from “reviews” to “recommendations,” so numbers and other reporting may be off. For more information about this change, I highly recommend Aaron Weiche’s explainer article on GetFiveStars.com. ———- I keep hoping Facebook would just fix this problem and let me off the hook for […]

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Bing Maps, We Have A Problem

Filed in Bing, Local Search by Matt McGee on August 29, 2017 0 Comments
Bing Maps, We Have A Problem

It’s been many years since I’ve done local SEO, but I’m pretty sure this isn’t good: (click for larger version) My wife has not one … not two … not three … but four listings in Bing Maps for her real estate business. This can be directly attributed to her having worked for three different […]

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PPC: Sometimes “set it and forget it” works!

Filed in PPC Advertising by Matt McGee on August 20, 2017 0 Comments
PPC: Sometimes “set it and forget it” works!

This has historically been an SEO-focused blog, but that hasn’t stopped me from writing a few PPC posts over the years … and for the first SBSM article in a looooong time, I’m gonna share a little PPC story. As a reminder, my wife, Cari, is a successful real estate agent here in Tri-Cities, Washington. […]

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Sometimes, It’s the Little 4×6 Marketing Things That Matter

Filed in Small Biz Marketing by Matt McGee on May 4, 2015 0 Comments
Sometimes, It’s the Little 4×6 Marketing Things That Matter

I stopped using national flower services years ago, mainly after reading some of the articles on FloristDetective.com — like this one, but really, just click all the links in the left nav that catch your eye. You’ll never order flowers from a middleman again. So, over the years, as friends have lost loved ones, or […]

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Everything You Need to Know About SEO, You Can Learn on Twitter (Part 1)

Filed in SEO by Matt McGee on October 17, 2014 4 Comments
Everything You Need to Know About SEO, You Can Learn on Twitter (Part 1)

Alright peeps, little did you know, but I’ve been faving and bookmarking your SEO tweets for like the past two years or so. Maybe more. (I’ve also been faving and bookmarking your social media marketing tweets, and those’ll show up in a future article.) The thing I’ve learned most from this exercise? You can learn […]

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This Just In: “Deconstructing Pigeon” Session Added to @SMX East (Speakers Wanted)

Filed in Conferences/Educ. by Matt McGee on July 31, 2014 0 Comments
This Just In: “Deconstructing Pigeon” Session Added to @SMX East (Speakers Wanted)

In light of last week’s news about Google’s new “Pigeon” local algorithm update, we’ve decided to add a session about it at SMX East: Deconstructing Pigeon, Google’s New Local Search Algorithm I’ll be coordinating that session, and I’m looking for speakers right now! It’s scheduled for day two of the conference, which is October 1st, […]

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