Well, Google would tell you that you approved months ago when they snuck an email to you telling you they were going to do this unless you opted out. If you accepted because you didn't read closely, thinking it was just another update to their policy or something similar, or if you never even opened [...]
Digital Marketing scams have been around for ages and seem to keep recycling with twists based on the latest offerings or focus from Google or other venues. In recent months, I have seen the account hijacking scam attempted multiple times on different clients or prospects I have been working with. I guess the easiest answer [...]
I have a client that just last week dipped his toe into Google Ads to get a feel for how effective it may be for his traffic and customer acquisition. He already received his first attempt of being scammed by someone claiming to be Google and asking for his login information to try to "help [...]
We all get those emails telling you how your site has all sorts of issues and fails the SEO test of that person from seoexpert@yahoo or whatever that sent it to you. Even some of the national companies have tests built for you to fail as a selling point. In actuality, we all could do [...]
Just a quick update this week about Google finally taking action on robo-callers that claim to be working for Google. This has been happening for years. Google will not typically robocall you. They do have automated call answering when confirming local businesses, but those are initiated by the user. They point out that they always [...]
This has been going on for a while now and I have addressed it before, but I have seen a new influx of fake Google calls to business owners. Please be very careful when someone calls you saying that they are "Google". I've even met with prospects who told me that another company worked with [...]
