by Gerard Manning | Feb 4, 2020 | Blog
What happens if you are using Google Local Services (Google Guaranteed), and you target only Residential Services, and you are getting repeated calls regarding Commercial Services? This is a common issue that many are having. Here I’ll look at the current...
by Gerard Manning | Jan 8, 2020 | Blog
Calls from the same phone number to your Google Forwarding Number With any small business, keeping costs in check is important. With Google Local Services, they use a Google Forwarding number to track the calls within their system to your business. This is how the...
by Gerard Manning | Jul 11, 2019 | Blog
Just recently with an update to Divi Plugins and themes. An issue with the content not showing in FireFox suddenly occurred. Content was showing on Google Chrome, but not on FireFox. Typically the first step with a case like this is too look at any external plugins...
by Gerard Manning | May 28, 2019 | Blog
Dealing with Fake reviews on Google My Business can be time consuming and these are proving to be an issue with any small businesses. With the current nature of the importance and impact reviews can have, a 1 or 2 star review can be pretty damaging. One tactic that is...
by Gerard Manning | May 28, 2018 | Blog
For myself, Integrity with the work I provide means a lot. In the SEO industry, early in my SEO career, this was around 2001/2002, I was working for Enquiro Search Solutions (they were then known as SearchEnginePosition.com). I was in charge of handling the SEO for...
by Gerard Manning | Feb 2, 2018 | Blog
Often after converting your website from static HTML to WordPress, you may encounter an issue with your index.html page. Now you could of used default.htm, index.htm or others as the home landing page for your website. It is important to have this property redirected....
by Gerard Manning | Dec 20, 2017 | Blog
For the 2017 holiday season, I thought I would share some of the more annoying things I see in the SEO world, and there’s a chance these would land you on Google’s Naughty list. Here’s my top 10. Send a spam email to google themselves. Tell them how...
by Gerard Manning | Dec 20, 2017 | Blog
A posting from Seth Godin touches on Local Scarcity. What a great topic to cover. This one is especially important for the local area that I live in here in Corner Brook Newfoundland. Before there was a local Walmart here, and before Amazon was the power house that is...
by Gerard Manning | Dec 13, 2017 | Blog
This was a question that was asked recently via Rebrandly, and thank-you for that question. What I like about digital marketing is that It gives anyone that has a dream or passion a chance to follow their path. No matter where you live, you have the chance to make...
by Gerard Manning | Dec 1, 2017 | Blog
The battle of the reviews On one side you have Google encouraging reviews, and on the other side you have Yelp stating a Review Solicitation penalty. Two companies on different sides of how they deal with reviews. And on each site, reviews are big business and do...
Gerard Manning is the owner of Manning Search Marketing and has been working in the SEO industry since 2000. Originally started with Enquiro Search Solutions (now known as Mediative). Was previously a Research Assistant on Inside the Mind of the Searcher that was released in 2005.