{"id":4969,"date":"2023-11-20T13:10:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T13:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpmudev.whitespark.ca\/new-series-get-ranked-on-google-maps\/"},"modified":"2024-10-28T16:03:00","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T22:03:00","slug":"new-series-get-ranked-on-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/blog\/new-series-get-ranked-on-google-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"New Video Series: Get RANKED on Google Maps &#8211; Step by Step"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve joined forces with Anne, a makeup artist and small business owner from Charlottesville, to tackle a tricky issue: her Google Business Profile lost its verification, leading to fewer people finding and booking her services.<\/p>\n<p>You can follow along every week as my guest and I embark on a quest to secure a top spot for her business on Google Maps.<strong>You can watch the first episode here:<\/strong><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ezxq-mixWUI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"tweet-p\" data-typefully=\"true\">Ep. 1 &#8211; Getting Started<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the first episode, Anne shares her story and reveals why her Google Business Profile got unverified.<\/p>\n<p>We talk a lot about the significance of proximity to the city center for better Google visibility. Brainstorming solutions, we consider options such as renting a nearby office or collaborating with a business situated downtown.<\/p>\n<p>We even explore the idea of becoming a &#8220;service area business,&#8221; ensuring customers wouldn\u2019t have to visit an office. This way, we&#8217;d have a simple setup while showing Google that the business is legit.Check out Whitespark&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WhitesparkCa\">YouTube channel<\/a> for more Local SEO content!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve joined forces with Anne, a makeup artist and small business owner from Charlottesville, to tackle a tricky issue: her Google Business Profile lost its verification, leading to fewer people finding and booking her services. You can follow along every week as my guest and I embark on a quest to secure a top spot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"0","_seopress_titles_title":"Get RANKED on Google Maps - Step by Step","_seopress_titles_desc":"Learn how to optimize your Google Maps presence and rank higher. Follow along as my guest and I get her small business RANKED on Google Maps.","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"classification":[],"class_list":["post-4969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5048,"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions\/5048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"classification","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/classification?post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}