[Guide] The 11 Tips For Ranking Your GMB Easily & Fast

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Categories - Make sure your primary and secondary categories are similar to your top competitors

How do we go about finding this out?
 
nodyguy said:
Hey guys,

I see many members asking alot recently about GMB's so I decided to write a quick list of tips for optimizing it.

Let's go straight to the point.

I'll divide this to Onpage (Optimizing the GMB itself) and Offpage (Optimizing outside of the GMB).

GMB Onpage Optimizing:
  • Add photos - make sure the keyword is in the file name. Also add geotagged photos, using tools like: https://www.geoimgr.com/
  • Add posts - Make sure you have some posts on your listing, both long and short, with your keywords inside.
  • Add reviews - Make sure you use legit reviews. Google is doing good job "filtering" fake reviews so try to act legit. If you are not outsourcing, post reviews from mobiles that searched for the service and called the GMB recently. Also make sure you're replying to reviews.
  • Categories - Make sure your primary and secondary categories are similar to your top competitors.
  • Add all the details - Make sure you fill everything possible in the GMB like description, hours, etc. For label use keywords.

GMB Offpage Optimizing:
  • Social Fortress - Make sure you build all the social profiles available, or atleast the top ones, with the NAP of the GMB.
  • Press Release - Make sure you run a quality press release with your map embeded and with your NAP there.
  • Citations - Build a bunch of Citations like Yelp and Bing, but make sure you go for local citations as well. Try to track what citations your competitors are using and get them as well.
  • Website - Make sure to get a website connected to your GMB, you can use GMB website builder.
  • Links - Just like any normal SEO project, get some links from various sources to your WEBSITE. Make sure those links include the NAP and the business information as well.
  • Google Authority Stack - Google loves their own properties, setup a Google Authority Stack linking to your website.

Let me know if you have any questions or you want to add something.

Thanks!
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Hi, what's the meaning of

Google Authority Stack linking
 
Can someone give me an example of google stacking? Do you create pages like on mymaps, blogger etc.. and then send out links to your money site?
 
Hmm i'm kinda new to GMB so i will definitely give these a try. Thanks my man!
 
mackdaddy88 said:
Categories - Make sure your primary and secondary categories are similar to your top competitors

How do we go about finding this out?
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do a search for the geo keyword you are targeting and look at the maps results - the primary category for each listing is shown next to the reviews
 
nodyguy said:
Hey guys,

I see many members asking alot recently about GMB's so I decided to write a quick list of tips for optimizing it.

Let's go straight to the point.

I'll divide this to Onpage (Optimizing the GMB itself) and Offpage (Optimizing outside of the GMB).

GMB Onpage Optimizing:
  • Add photos - make sure the keyword is in the file name. Also add geotagged photos, using tools like: https://www.geoimgr.com/
  • Add posts - Make sure you have some posts on your listing, both long and short, with your keywords inside.
  • Add reviews - Make sure you use legit reviews. Google is doing good job "filtering" fake reviews so try to act legit. If you are not outsourcing, post reviews from mobiles that searched for the service and called the GMB recently. Also make sure you're replying to reviews.
  • Categories - Make sure your primary and secondary categories are similar to your top competitors.
  • Add all the details - Make sure you fill everything possible in the GMB like description, hours, etc. For label use keywords.

GMB Offpage Optimizing:
  • Social Fortress - Make sure you build all the social profiles available, or atleast the top ones, with the NAP of the GMB.
  • Press Release - Make sure you run a quality press release with your map embeded and with your NAP there.
  • Citations - Build a bunch of Citations like Yelp and Bing, but make sure you go for local citations as well. Try to track what citations your competitors are using and get them as well.
  • Website - Make sure to get a website connected to your GMB, you can use GMB website builder.
  • Links - Just like any normal SEO project, get some links from various sources to your WEBSITE. Make sure those links include the NAP and the business information as well.
  • Google Authority Stack - Google loves their own properties, setup a Google Authority Stack linking to your website.

Let me know if you have any questions or you want to add something.

Thanks!
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thanks for this guide, what's NAP?
 
Make sure it's a .com website! Using anything else is not worth the money you'd save on the domain itself. You'll make much more money with a .com domain than .info, etc.

Local citations are the key.. Bing and Yelp won't help much, especially not for competitive niches.

What is not mentioned but is really important is getting LOCAL TRAFFIC to your listing. This will rank it faster than most other factors.
 
True Hustler said:
Make sure it's a .com website! Using anything else is not worth the money you'd save on the domain itself. You'll make much more money with a .com domain than .info, etc.

Local citations are the key.. Bing and Yelp won't help much, especially not for competitive niches.

What is not mentioned but is really important is getting LOCAL TRAFFIC to your listing. This will rank it faster than most other factors.
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How do you get local residential IPs for smaller cities?
 
is it best to point the Google stack to Money Site or to the CID or Gmaps shortened address?

Power Booster said:
Yeah, you just said everything and Google markup schema is also must in the website which should contain all the information regarding the website like address, phone, email, logo, image etc.

And must said, Google authority stack is very important for any local business and is good for any website too, as Google loves their properties.
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Power Booster said:
Yeah, you just said everything and Google markup schema is also must in the website which should contain all the information regarding the website like address, phone, email, logo, image etc.

And must said, Google authority stack is very important for any local business and is good for any website too, as Google loves their properties.
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Power Booster said:
It's best to point to the Money site, and it should be created separately for each money page.
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Ahhh, a different one for each money page, didn’t think of that. So I already created one that is for the general gmb and pointed to the shortened gmb link. Built some high authority 2.0s to it.

But I apparently didn’t do two things. Didn’t point map embeds to the stack, nor did I embed a map in the stack itself. I will add the map to the stack tomorrow, but since the targeting is all over, to cover the whole listing, will it hurt to keep the stack pointed at the cid? Or should I just point this one to the homepage of my money site?

I’ll list create new ones for each money page
 
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