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February AMA (Ask Me Anything) with SEO Expert Bryan Sekine

  • 6 February 2023
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In preparation for our February AMA (Ask Me Anything) with SEO Expert @bryansekine on Wednesday, February 15th, at 7am pacific / 9am central / 10am eastern, we will be collecting seo questions to ask Bryan in this thread.

 

 

We will also have the opportunity to send questions in the live chat during the event. You can join the event here: https://go.carrot.com/carrot-community-ama/

 

Please ask any questions you have for Bryan below as a comment or in the live chat!

 

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beth
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Here are the first couple of questions from the community:

  1. Can you explain keyword cannibalization and how to avoid it?
  2. How do you present yourself as an expert according to google and why is this important?

 

Please add your questions below or on the live call 😎

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A couple more questions from the community:

  1. Do you think having a google business profile is important and why?
  2. How do customer reviews tied to your google business profile help or hurt with your seo?

 

Please add your questions below or on the live call 😎

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Another question from the community:

  1. Can you explain the importance of NAP (name, address, phone) and what to do if you work out of your house?

 

Please add your questions below or on the live call 😎

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Hi, I would love to learn more about your thoughts on Google Business profile, especially how to utilize for those that work out of our home…

Also, we’re focusing on the New Hampshire market. We don’t have a big city like Philadelphia or Fort Lauderdale to target our SEO around… How would you recommend we think about this? From what I can tell, most people in New Hampshire search for things on a state level as opposed to city specific… What would be your SEO approach to doing business in New Hampshire?

Thanks for your help!

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Hi @strattonenterprises, I’ll let Bryan expand more on the importance of a GB profile, but I wanted to give you some quick advice on what to set your primary target as--if you intend to generate the majority of your business all over the state of New Hampshire, that’s your primary market. I made a quick adjustment to your H1 on your homepage (see attached) because you still had a blank short code hanging out there :)

Next step would be to eliminate any [market_city] shortcodes on your homepage, otherwise it’s going to look a bit off (and Google likely doesn’t love unfilled shortcodes!). Make sure you replace those [market_city} shortcodes with NH/New Hampshire or in the content to ensure you have strong location indicators and density. And then, of course--personalize, optimize and localize! 

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Hey @taylor - thank you so much for your reply and for the quick adjustment to the H1 on our website!

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@strattonenterprises One thing to note: Before you remove all of shortcodes for [market_city], be sure to duplicate your homepage so you can use the duplicated page to make your city location pages. Otherwise, you will need to add the [market_city] back in for those location pages.

I hope this makes sense. Let me know if you have any questions.

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More questions from the community:

  • Can you explain the importance of NAP (name, address, phone) and what to do if you work out of your house?
  • Are there specific items on a google business profile that are especially important? Are adding FAQs important and can they be word for word the same as on your site or do they need to be changed up?
  • How do customer reviews tied to your google business profile help or hurt with your seo?
  • Is responding to google or other reviews important? If yes, any guidelines for this? Especially a false or bad review.

Please add your questions below or on the live call 😎

beth
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I’m looking forward to everyone joining us for our Carrot Community February AMA (Ask Me Anything) with SEO Expert Bryan Sekine starting in 25 minutes!

You can join us and ask your questions here: https://go.carrot.com/carrot-community-ama/

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