
Why Does Your Business Get Fake or Spam Google Reviews and What Can you Do About it?
As a local web design and SEO company in Scottsdale since 2008, we’ve had clients right here in the Airpark who have been victims of fake Google reviews.

As a local web design and SEO company in Scottsdale since 2008, we’ve had clients right here in the Airpark who have been victims of fake Google reviews.

This is a question I get all the time from clients here in North Scottsdale, Arizona. That’s because most small business owners know that their Google business page is an important way to get found in the search results, even if they already have a website.

It seems like more and more new small businesses here in North Scottsdale, particularly in Scottsdale Air Park, the Promenade and Kierland area, are concerned about showing up on Google Maps.

As a local web design company in North Scottsdale since 2008, we often get great questions from our clients, especially related to how to get their websites ranked higher in Google results.

Over the years, we’ve had a number of clients ask about a variety of SEO related questions. One of those was regarding whether the repeated use of the same words (in an effort to improve search engine ranking) within their websites has a negative impact.

Recently, a client who runs a local business in North Scottsdale asked whether it was a good idea to hire someone to post fake Google reviews. Now, this business owner didn’t just come up with this idea out of nowhere.

As a local web design company in Scottsdale, AZ, we have been asked on numerous occasions, how long it takes for a brand-new (as in never before launched) website, to be found in the search results.

You’ve probably wondered why some of your local competitors (say in Scottsdale, AZ) show up higher than you in Google Maps. Since Google Maps is the modern-day phone book, most people pick from the very top three results displayed.

As a web design and SEO company in Scottsdale, we often get questions from our clients about some industry jargon. One recent request was to explain the meaning behind the term “share-worthy” content.

A Scottsdale small business client just asked me about a term called “link equity”. I was actually quite surprised, because that is an SEO phrase that most non-SEO people aren’t usually familiar with.