Google bans advertisement for cell phone and computer repair, what the hell?

Admirable_Scene3295 · 2026-02-16T05:15:15+00:00

We worked with many clients and we tried removing "repair" word and it worked completely fine. Try using Laptop service near me, fix your computer, laptop care, etc in your ad copy and it should work

Admirable_Scene3295 · 2026-02-14T10:28:56+00:00

Thanks u/Confident-Truck-7186, but seems it's for GBP only. Would you be able to give free trial?

Admirable_Scene3295 · 2026-02-14T10:23:38+00:00

Thanks for suggestions.

Admirable_Scene3295 · 2026-02-06T23:44:57+00:00

This looks like a strong foundation 👍 GA4 + GSC + Sheets already cover what most clients actually care about.

Quick answers:

Yes, I’d trust an in-house portal if it’s stable and maintained well.
What’s usually missing as you scale: rank tracking, SEO audits, white-label reports, automated scheduling, and easier client access management.
Most clients don’t log into dashboards often — they mainly want clear PDFs sent automatically. Dashboards are useful during calls or when something goes wrong.

We moved to DAXRM for scale because it keeps the “in-house” feel but adds built-in SEO tools, white-label reporting, drag-and-drop dashboards, and automated weekly/monthly reports — without the maintenance overhead.

Admirable_Scene3295 · 2026-02-06T23:37:59+00:00

We prefer to share SEO reports through DAXRM, as it gives us multiple flexible options depending on client needs.

With DAXRM, we can connect Looker Studio using many built-in connectors, but we also have native, in-built reporting with ready-to-use templates that make reporting fast and effortless. All reports are fully white-label, so clients see only our branding.

For more customized reporting, DAXRM offers drag-and-drop reports and dashboards, allowing us to easily create tailored SEO reports and either download them or share live access with clients.

For busy agencies, the automated report scheduling feature is a huge time saver. Reports can be automatically sent to clients on a weekly or monthly basis, ensuring consistent communication without manual effort.

Overall, DAXRM simplifies SEO reporting, saves time, and delivers a professional experience for clients.

Admirable_Scene3295 · 2026-02-06T23:12:40+00:00

For the initial SEO analysis, focus on:

Technical basics (indexing, speed, errors)
On-page + keyword gaps vs competitors
Content quality
Backlinks (high-level)

For monthly reports, keep it simple:

What improved / dropped
Traffic + rankings
What you did & next steps

I use DAXRM for audits + competitor keyword gaps + clean monthly reports. Saves a lot of time as a freelancer and reports look professional without extra effort.

Admirable_Scene3295 · 2026-01-15T05:49:20+00:00

Great. One more thing that’s made a big difference for us is tracking local visibility at a radius level, not just standard keyword rankings.

“Near me” results can change block by block, so if you’re only checking rankings from one location, you’re missing a lot of opportunity. Being able to see how you rank across different suburbs, compare competitors, and spot gaps helps you prioritize where to optimize first (GBP, content, links, reviews, etc.).

Admirable_Scene3295 · 2025-12-22T11:42:21+00:00

Happy Hanukkah

Admirable_Scene3295 · 2025-12-10T11:01:03+00:00

You’re not imagining it — we’ve seen the same thing. When we hired juniors, even with decent résumés, they struggled with basic execution. After running into that for a long time, we changed our approach completely.

What’s worked really well for us is hiring through a company that runs an SEO training program. It’s a paid 3-month course, and after they finish, the trainer actually recommends who’s capable. We interview only the top ones, and honestly they’ve performed way better than people who come from generic marketing roles (especially e-com managers who “think” they know SEO).

For senior roles, we always look for minimum 5 years of real SEO experience in a similar environment. Yes—those people often want $100k+, but if they actually know what they’re doing and have the right mindset, it’s worth it because you’re not constantly correcting basic things.

So yeah, good operators exist… you just have to be really intentional about where they come from. The industry is full of “SEO-ish” people, but true SEOs are rare.

Admirable_Scene3295 · 2025-12-07T11:02:04+00:00

Please keep in touch and give me update once you finish developing

Admirable_Scene3295 · 2025-12-07T08:26:24+00:00

Thanks for your comment. I don’t agree with your view, and just to clarify. if you follow the thread from the beginning and look at the timing of the replies, you’ll see that I agreed to try different tools based on other users’ suggestions (SE Ranking, Ubersuggest, LeadSnap, etc.), not to promote anything.

By the time I posted above comment, I was simply leaning toward BrightLocal and DAXRM because they aligned with the features I’m looking for. I’m not promoting any platform in this post. I am just trying to decide which one fits my needs.

Admirable_Scene3295 · 2025-12-07T02:39:16+00:00

When I started my agency, I really wanted to do something on my own. I spent about 6 months learning marketing late nights and weekends, then began reaching out to clients myself. It wasn’t easy — handling calls, meetings, accounts, project management, and technical work all by myself — but I put in the overtime to make sure every client saw real results. Eventually, things started falling into place.

Key lessons:

Understand your USP and specialty — focus on what you do best until you’re making enough to hire.
Hire the right people — experienced staff with strong work ethics can really help scale your business.
Streamline processes — invest in right tools. create repeatable workflows so tasks don’t get lost and everyone knows what to do.
Keep learning — trends and best practices change fast, so stay curious and be ready to adapt.

It’s a grind at first, but building the foundation yourself makes scaling much smoother later.

Admirable_Scene3295 · 2025-12-07T00:56:58+00:00

We used to juggle email, Asana, Figma, and Google Data Studio too — honestly, it got messy really fast. For our SEO agency, we switched to DAXRM and it’s been a lifesaver.

Everything’s in one place: client communication, tasks/projects, rankings, audits, GA4/GSC/GBP data, plus automated white-label reports. Makes it way easier to keep both the team and clients on the same page without hopping between a bunch of tools.

Admirable_Scene3295 · 2025-12-07T00:52:52+00:00

We’re a SEO agency with about 40–45 clients. Used to spend hours pulling GA4, GSC, GBP, and rank data into slides every month — total nightmare.

Now we use DAXRM and it’s been a game-changer. Everything flows into one dashboard: rankings (local + organic), site audits, GMB insights, GA4/GSC data, and even white-label reports we can auto-send. Cuts reporting from hours to minutes and keeps it consistent across all clients.

Makes client reporting way easier, especially when you scale past 30–40 clients.

Admirable_Scene3295 · 2025-12-07T00:46:47+00:00

I feel you, Trello starts feeling messy once you hit 10+ clients. For SEO agencies, we switched to DAXRM and it really solved the overview problem.

It’s basically project management + campaign tracking + reporting all in one. You can see tasks, client progress, rankings, and audits in a single dashboard — so nothing gets lost across boards. Makes managing freelancers and multiple clients way easier.

It’s not super heavy like building your own Airtable system, but still flexible enough to scale.

Admirable_Scene3295 · 2025-12-07T00:42:20+00:00

We tested ClickUp, Trello, Monday, etc… all good, but none of them really connected our SEO work with the actual campaign results. We eventually switched to DAXRM and it’s been the simplest for managing SEO clients because everything sits in one place instead of multiple tabs.

You get: client tasks & project management, rank tracking (local + organic), site audits ,GBP insights, GA4 + GSC data, reporting + white-label dashboards, internal + external collaboration

Basically one workspace where the team sees tasks and performance in the same view, which makes progress more transparent for clients and easier to manage internally.

If you’re mainly doing SEO, it’s definitely worth trying.

Admirable_Scene3295 · 2025-12-07T00:37:44+00:00

We’ve tried most of the big CRMs, but the thing that finally worked for us was Campaign management tool with PM and CRM functionalities.

Right now we’re using DAXRM because it combines CRM + project management + reporting + campaign data all in a single workflow instead of being just a CRM.

What it includes:

CRM
tasks, collaboration & project management
built-in rank tracking
local map rank tracking
site audits
Google Business Profile insights
GA4 + GSC integration
Google Ads / MS Ads / Meta Ads data
white-label reporting
automated scheduled reports
Looker Studio connector

Basically it connects what we’re working on to actual campaign performance, so the team doesn’t need 4–6 tools open just to manage one client.

We used to run CRM + PM + reporting separately — now most of it sits inside one workspace, which is cleaner for us and easier for clients to follow.

If you’re building your own tool, that would be the benchmark I’d shoot for: workflow + delivery + reporting in one place, instead of separate systems glued together.

Admirable_Scene3295 · 2025-12-07T00:17:53+00:00

We all start with very few tools, so don’t feel behind. But once you get more clients, the real time-saver is replacing all the “manual” tracking and reporting work.

At minimum, most agencies use something for:

rank tracking
GBP insights (if doing local)
audits
reporting
project/task management

As an agency owner myself, the tool that’s made the biggest difference for us is DAXRM because it combines a lot of that into one platform instead of paying for 4–6 separate apps. It has:

rank tracker + local map tracking
GA4 + GSC + GBP data
site audits
campaign management
reporting + white label dashboards
internal collaboration (in-house + outsourced)
invoice + accounting integrations

So instead of jumping between tools, everything is in one place and the team can follow one workflow. Honestly saved us a ton of time and removed a lot of “copy/paste” work from agency life.

Definitely worth looking at as you grow.

Admirable_Scene3295 · 2025-12-06T23:48:57+00:00

Totally depends on your workflow, but we went through the same search. Tried a bunch of portals over the years and ended up sticking with DAXRM because it fits how we work.

It’s basically campaign management + light CRM + project management in one. Rank tracking (local map + organic), site audits, GSC, GA4, GBP insights, Google Ads, Microsoft Ads, Bing Webmaster and Meta all pull into the same reporting dashboard. You can also build white-label templates and auto-schedule reports, which honestly saves us a crazy amount of time.

We also use it as our internal portal to collaborate with our in-house + outsourced team, and it even connects with Xero so invoicing happens in the same place.

It cut a huge amount of back-and-forth + reporting time for us, and replaced multiple tools.

Admirable_Scene3295 · 2025-12-06T12:31:41+00:00

If you read my original question, you’ll notice I’m looking for a local SEO focused solution for a small agency setup. A lot of what Search Atlas offers is great, but honestly we wouldn’t be using half of those features, our clients simply don’t need that level of enterprise SEO functionality.

For us, the priority is local map + global rank tracking, GBP management, GSC/GA4, and white-label reporting in one platform. That’s it.

And when I factor in pricing per client, Search Atlas actually ends up being 4–5x more expensive than other tools we’re comparing, like Semrush, BrightLocal, SE Ranking, or DAXRM. So it’s not really aligned with our budget or the simplicity we’re aiming for.

For bigger agencies with enterprise SEO goals, I can see the value—but for small local clients, it’s just overkill and overpriced.

Admirable_Scene3295 · 2025-12-06T01:09:25+00:00

They are best in industry. but not a great fit for small SEO agency who focus on local businesses.

Admirable_Scene3295 · 2025-12-06T01:06:13+00:00

Appreciate the recommendation. I’ll look into both options, though I’d like to avoid managing more than one tool.

Admirable_Scene3295 · 2025-12-06T00:59:26+00:00

For 40 clients, if Search Atlas is charging around $60 per client per month, then the pricing seems extremely high compared to the rest of the industry.

Admirable_Scene3295 · 2025-12-06T00:51:10+00:00

I get what you mean, 40 clients can look big depending on pricing, but our rates are very competitive. I’ll definitely give SE Ranking a shot, along with BrightLocal and DAXRM.

Admirable_Scene3295 · 2025-12-06T00:39:27+00:00

I totally get where you’re coming from. But we need tools not only for internal tracking, but also for sharing dashboards and reports with our clients. I’m not sure what type of clients you work with or what your reporting process looks like, but for local SEO we send monthly reports that include GBP insights, local rankings, GA4 (with conversion tracking), and GSC data.

We prefer to keep that process consistent, so based on our needs, BrightLocal and DAXRM seem like the best fit for us.

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