Tucson SEO Services Articles
Google Business Profile Reinstatement Guide
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.
How to Respond to a Bad Review
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.
Google Business Profile Video Verification
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.
How to Keep Your Business Visible During Crisis
During a crisis — whether economic disruption, a global event, an industry upheaval, or a sudden algorithm shift — your website's visibility becomes your most critical business asset.
How to Get More Google Reviews Without Breaking the Rules
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.
Google Business Profile: How to Rank on Maps in 2026
The current version of Google Business Profile optimization: the three features Google switched off, the fields that actually decide where you rank on Maps, and the checklist David Cragg runs on client profiles.
Getting a Fake Review Removed: What Actually Works
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.
What is SEO and how does SEO work?
Search Engine Optimization, commonly known as SEO, is one of the most talked-about yet widely misunderstood concepts in the digital marketing world.
Techniques to Reduce Facebook Ads Spend
In most cases, the businesses with the lowest cost-per-acquisition are not the ones with the biggest budgets — they are the ones who have systematically eliminated every source of wasted spend and optimized every lever Meta's auction actually responds to.
5 Expert Tips to Get More Instagram Ad Clicks
Capturing more Instagram ad clicks isn’t just about shooting eye candy anymore. You need to have a solid plan and strategy.
How to improve AI search and local visibility
Learn how to improve AI search visibility and local SEO using Google Business Profile optimization, schema markup, reviews, entity SEO, and AI-focused search strategies.
Advanced SEO Glossary
This expanded SEO glossary provides in-depth definitions of over 150 essential and advanced search engine optimization (SEO) terms.
64% of Small Business Websites Are Not Optimized for AI-Driven Search
64% of small business websites are not optimized for AI-driven search. This guide covers exactly what changed, why it matters, and the precise steps required to fix it.
Industry-Specific SEO in Tucson, AZ
Tucson industry-specific SEO from David Cragg — tailored strategies for home services, healthcare, legal, automotive, and more. The AC company that grew from 1 truck to 13. The dentist ranked #1 after 5 years. $1,000/mo, no contract. (520) 207-6000.
25 Website Marketing Tips and Tricks That Actually Work
With the right digital marketing strategy, companies in Tucson can increase visibility, drive website traffic generation, and achieve long-term online business growth.
I Rank #1 at My Shop and Nowhere Else
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
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.
Website Design for SEO — How to Build a Site That Ranks
Most small businesses treat website design and SEO as two separate conversations — one with a designer, one with a marketer. That separation is costing businesses their Google rankings before a single word of content is written.
Someone Else Owns My Google Business Profile — How Do I Get It Back?
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.