Recent content by marcelledbetter

I'm hoping to help a friend. Scenario- Friend had a really bad experience with a landscaping contractor a while ago... TL;DR: the contractor left him high and dry and the job not complete. Fast forward a year later, the contractor forgot to renew his domain name and it expired. My friend...

Does backlinking from edu sites still help? I was under the impression that Google really didn't factor that anymore.

I also want to make sure that the reviewer accounts do not look spammy.

As for reviews... Just want to make sure though, with all the changes to Google Places/ Google+ Local, will these reviews pass Google's spam filters?

Hmm, I'm trying to respond to a PM, but I don't have 15 posts yet.

I'm looking for Google Places/ Google+ Local reviews...

My client has lots of written testimonials from customers throughout the years. I explained to him that we can't publish these to Google Places, Yelp, etc.; but he's really pushing to get these online. I've explained to him that Google views this as black hat, but he doesn't care. He even...