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Schneider: Exact keyword matches beat reviews for Google Maps ranking
“Reviews are way lower than people think. It's honestly shocking. Especially in like smaller geographies, it really, what's matters is like, is this an exact match for whatever this person is searching?”
Schneider: Social curation will replace Yelp because nobody trusts Yelp or Google Maps
“Cause like this will replace Yelp. Like nobody trusts Yelp and nobody trusts Google maps.”
Spinks: Writing undisclosed emails with ChatGPT leans toward synthetic representation
“Using chat GPT to write an email on your behalf, and not saying it is probably closer to the her end of the spectrum than the Google Maps end of the spectrum.”
James: High review volume with poor sentiment indicates business opportunity
“So imagine, you know, you can go and find a niche that has, you know, hundreds of reviews every month, but customers are generally not happy. To me, that sounds like Opportunity or arbitrage, right?”
Chu: Traffic to basic directories shows Google Maps fails user needs
“Pretty unhelpful, yet people are going to websites like this, and it just shows you that Google Maps is not satisfying everyone's needs.”
Schneider: Citation strategy achieved Google Maps snack pack in 10 days
“Like we've seen it in like a week and a half go from like, it's not in that snack pack to it's in that snack pack.”
Chu: Outscraper is the cheapest option for scraping Google Maps data
“I just went straight to outscraper. I don't think. There's nothing new here. I went over this in the last pod, but Altscraper is still the cheapest option for me. I've used Appify and other kind of alternatives, but just keep it simple. I think Altscraper is a…”