Recent content by LocalContractor

maybe because it was a new site but a couple of months ago I was happening within hours and ranking within 6 or so.

A couple months ago when I was working on the site it would always be within a couple of hours the google crawl bot would show up .... now im waiting over 24 hours with nothing but crickets.

ya just starting to get some more hits on stuff unexpectedly that seems to be more than anticipated. Guess it will be time to make some more pages soon tagerting the pages people are actually searching for. I was thinking google ads might be the best way, thanks for that reminder

I have been out of the game for awhile and my personal life has been the most hectic of any of the last 40+ years so I find myself very limited on time. I have started ranking for what I guessed would be the most popular local search term but I was wandering if there was an accurate way to see...

what does premium offer that basic does not? do many of yall use the premium version?

have you tried a bst here? I have shopped them for group buys before

Nuggets are hidden everywhere but I like to watch the black hat seo forum since everything we do here is considered black hat by google.

I had my cousin post a review a month or so ago and the same day all of my rankings fell from 1-5 to nowhere in top 100. Her review never posted as if google flagged it for spam or whatever I didnt do anything to fix it and got a few more reviews on my gmb with no change. This weekend I added...

I finally took the time to do a small update on pages that had fallen from rankings . I embedded a Google map for each page for the areas they were targeting and I am back to #1 in my top target market and top 5 on all of my other pages except 1 that's on page 2. edit: I also asked google to...

So I steadily climbed up the rankings to reach #1 for my main target ... then for some reason april 1st my rankings absolutely tanked. I dont show a manual action and my pages are still indexed but they have dropped from #1-5 for all of the terms I was targeting down to 100+ .... My personal...

wow, looking phenomenal man! I wish I had the big steep mountains on my site that you have going on yours! if that growth continues no doubt you will be monetized in no time. Great work on increasing your ctr with the thumbnails. I have not messed with that before but they have to work since...

Ive always heard that and generally believe it to be true but have not been able to test it myself. I always find myself starting from scratch when its website building time. Thanks I appreciate it!

No competition needed! let me start making money before you come after it :) How many visitors a month to make 5k? Only one if its the RIGHT visitor each month haha. :) No clue how many visits I will actually need. Im hoping that we start getting a couple of leads weekly next month when...

Update: Rankings for the top two pages im focused on are now showing 4th in google in the last 24 hours. Up from about 9th so thats pretty sweet. We also got the Magnets for the vehicle were driving around to hopefully get some local work and awareness. We got the GMB verified but its...

I thought the google my business app was discountinued? Im pretty sure its all done thru the maps app now right? maybe ask chat gpt to give you an updated answer for me? lol