Internet Marketing Tips

Internet marketing success comes from combining strategy, consistency, and data-driven decisions. By leveraging tools like Google Analytics, optimizing for search engines, and original authoritative content creation, businesses can increase visibility and conversions. The following articles will give you more insight into successful practices for Internet marketing.

I Rank #1 at My Shop and Nowhere Else

September 22nd, 2026|

Owners call me convinced something is broken because they rank first at their own door and nowhere across town. Usually nothing is broken. David Cragg on why Map Pack position is a grid rather than a list, how to check your rank from several points free in ten minutes, what a normal fade actually looks like, and which of Google's three local factors — relevance, distance or prominence — a given fade shape really indicts.

New State, New Name: What Happens to Your Google Reviews

September 21st, 2026|

Same owner, same services, new name, new state. Google may still treat your new company as a stranger and leave the reviews behind. David Cragg, who moved Temecula SEO to Tucson in 2022, covers what Google's rules actually say, the one decision to make before touching the profile, the order to make changes in, how to move the domain, and how to carry your track record across when the reviews can't come with you.

Google Business Profile Reinstatement Guide

September 21st, 2026|

The causes are covered on the pillar. This is the procedure. What to repair before you open the appeals tool, the exact documents to have in one folder before the sixty-minute evidence window starts, what the form actually asks for, how long a decision really takes in 2026, and the four moves left when the first appeal comes back denied. Written by David Cragg, who files these for Tucson clients as part of the monthly engagement.

Google Business Profile Video Verification

September 21st, 2026|

Video verification is not hard, it is unforgiving. David Cragg covers what to film and in what order for storefronts and service-area businesses, the documented reasons recordings get rejected, why most second attempts fail for the wrong reason, and what it actually means when Google offers you no verification method at all.

Someone Else Owns My Google Business Profile — How Do I Get It Back?

September 20th, 2026|

The listing is yours, the reviews are yours, but the account belongs to an agency you fired or a Gmail nobody remembers creating. David Cragg walks through the full recovery: identifying who holds it, the request-access flow, the separate path service-area businesses have to use, the three-day response window that most articles get wrong, what to do when the current owner simply ignores you, and how to appeal a denial.

Google Business Profile Articles

September 20th, 2026|

Articles on Managing a Google Business Profile

Getting a Fake Review Removed: What Actually Works

September 18th, 2026|

Somebody calls me about once a month wanting a review gone by Friday. Here is the honest version: Google removes reviews that break a policy, not reviews that are unfair or untrue. This walks through what Google's criteria actually cover, how to flag a review and write the one appeal you get, when the Business Redressal Complaint Form is the right escalation, what the timelines really look like, and the point where a fake review stops being an SEO problem and becomes a lawyer's.

How to Get More Google Reviews Without Breaking the Rules

September 18th, 2026|

Most businesses don't have a review problem, they have a request problem. The request system from David Cragg: pulling your short review link out of the profile, when to ask, text versus email, where QR codes belong, what staff can legally say after Google's April 2026 policy change, and the arithmetic behind how many reviews a month it takes to keep your recent history full.

How to Respond to a Bad Review

September 17th, 2026|

Most advice on negative reviews stops at "stay professional and take it offline." This is the executable version: exact wording for eight situations that actually land on local business profiles, what never to say in each, and when a review can genuinely be removed.