Which SEO Services Article Answers Your Question?
What SEO is, how it changes from one industry to the next, and what AI search means for a local business.
Start here if you're trying to understand SEO before you hire anyone, including me. Articles about specific jobs live in their own sections: technical SEO, Google Business Profile and reputation management.
How Do You Rank Higher on Google Maps in 2026?
Google ranks the Map Pack on relevance, distance and prominence, and you control two of them. The order I change things in when a client's profile sits below the top three, how to read a drop in rank from one side of town to the other, the tactics Google switched off, and the checklist I run.
Can AI-Driven Search Read Your Small Business Website?
Most sites that never get named in an AI answer fail before anyone reads them. A firewall, a robots.txt line or a script decides it first. Which crawlers to allow and block, how to tell whether your host is turning assistants away, and how to write passages an assistant can lift, including what I found when I tested my own site.
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.
How Does SEO Change From One Industry to the Next?
The ranking rules are the same for every business. The searches, competitors, listings and trust signals aren't. What changes for contractors, dental and medical offices, law firms, planned home services and destination businesses, plus a ten-minute way to find your own trade's signals.
Advanced SEO Glossary
This expanded SEO glossary provides in-depth definitions of over 150 essential and advanced search engine optimization (SEO) terms.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How Do You Push Down Negative Search Results About Your Business?
You usually can't delete a bad page from Google, but you can make it the fourteenth thing a customer sees instead of the second. David Cragg covers what Google will actually remove, how to get a news site or forum to change a page at the source, which owned pages push the rest off page one, honest timelines, and the shortcuts that create a second problem.
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.
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.
Why Don’t Your Website’s Testimonials Show Review Stars in Google Search Results?
Two hundred reviews on your website and no stars in Google? That has been Google's rule since 2019, and no widget changes it. David Cragg explains the self-serving review rule, what the July 2026 guideline on fake and incentivized reviews added, how to find plugin-injected AggregateRating in your live source, and what compliant markup for testimonials looks like.
Why PageSpeed Insights and Search Console Disagree About Your Speed
A green 95 in PageSpeed Insights and a Poor rating in Search Console can both be true. Here’s why the two tools measure different things, which one Google uses, and how I read them together.
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.
Which Review Sites for Small Business Matter Beyond Google, and Which Can You Ignore?
For most local businesses it's three or four review sites, not thirty. David Cragg shows the ten-minute test for finding which ones your customers actually see, then goes through Yelp after its 2026 OpenAI deal, BBB in Tucson, Facebook, Angi, Nextdoor, Healthgrades, Glassdoor since its merger into Indeed, and the Arizona ROC record contractors can't claim.
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 improve AI search and local visibility
Google spelled out how its AI search works in May 2026, and most of the GEO tricks being sold to small businesses, llms.txt included, aren't on its list, so here's what I actually check on client sites and how I measure the results in Search Console.
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.
How Do You Redesign a Website Without Losing Your Google Rankings?
Rankings rarely drop because the new design is worse. They drop because URLs changed, redirects leaked or a staging setting went live. The inventory, the redirect map, the launch-day checks and the first two weeks in Search Console, in the order I run them on client sites.
Would You Rather Not Do This Yourself?
This work is part of my monthly SEO services. Everything in these articles is part of the same $1,000 a month. The other article sections are google business profile articles, reputation management articles, technical seo articles.
What Do Clients Say About Working With David?
Four of the ten reviews on my Google profiles, quoted in full. Most were left on the Temecula SEO profile during the Southern California years, before the practice moved to Tucson in 2022.
David is great to work with. He takes his job seriously, is a wealth of knowledge not only in SEO, but also business in general. If you are looking to for someone to handle SEO for you - you can stop looking now.
Russ Colburn Temecula SEO
David built and developed the website for my business. His customer service and expertise are superior to anyone else I had previously used. How many web development guys had I been through that promise the moon, work hard for a short while, then become difficult to get a hold of later? I'll tell you: there were 9 in 7 years! Temecula SEO worked with us closely, is VERY knowledgeable and computer savvy! It's so nice to have a custom website built; and, actually see it rank well on-line! If you want an SEO guy you can count on, David with Temecula SEO is your man!
Leo Rich Severns Master Technician · Temecula SEO
David at TemeculaSEO is a unique professional. He has been in the industry almost longer than the web has been around. He cares about my success and spends as much time as it takes to make my business succeed. I wish that I could afford to pay him more.
Dr. Ryan Marshall, D.C. Marshall Chiropractic · Temecula SEO
I made a decision to Hire David, with Temecula SEO about a year ago now, it has changed the presence of my company online greatly. I would highly recommend giving david a chance if you are looking for an honest SEO company.
Jordan Johnson Temecula SEO
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Consultant: David Cragg, in search since 1990
Every article in this section was written by David Cragg, Tucson SEO consultant, in search since 1990.
On how this site is written: I use AI tools to draft and to check my own work. AI does not supply the facts about your business, it does not invent sources, and nothing goes up here that I have not read first. If you find a claim on this site you can't verify, call me and I'll fix it or pull it.
