Top 9 reasons Google suspends local listings
Has your business listing in Google been suspended? Not sure what happened? Columnist Joy Hawkins discusses the likely causes and how to address...
Joy Hawkins
Joy Hawkins is a Local SEO expert who is a part of Google's Top Contributor program & MapMaker Regional Leads program. She regularly contributes to many online communities in the Local SEO world, including the Google My Business forum (Top Contributor), the Local Search Forum (Top Contributor), and the Local University Forum (Moderator). She also a contributor to the Moz Local Search Ranking Factors survey. Joy currently works as a product consultant at Imprezzio Marketing in Toronto. She also loves to blog on her own time about things pertaining to Local SEO.
Dear SEOs: Please stop spamming Google Maps!
Columnist Joy Hawkins gives a lesson in what NOT to do when optimizing Google My Business profiles, based on her experiences cleaning up spammy...
Google Is Fixing The “Permanently Closed” Problem For Local Businesses
Columnist Joy Hawkins discusses how you can fix issues with old business locations being marked "Permanently closed" -- and what Google may be doing...
When You Rank High Organically But Not Locally (Case Study)
You've done everything right in terms of local SEO -- you're even ranking high in organic results -- but you just can't seem to get a place in the...
Definitive Guide To Duplicate Research For Local SEO
Wondering how to identify and clean up your duplicate map listings? Columnist Joy Hawkins has you...
5 Major Differences Between Google Map Maker & Google My Business Guidelines
Columnist and local search expert Joy Hawkins outlines some differences between two of Google's local/maps services, discussing which might come in...
