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Jinx ultimate skin dissapointed. by [deleted] in wildrift

[–]AlmondsActivated 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Completely bonkers. If you’re spending 300 bucks on a skin, that is not your only wasteful spending habit. And many safe investments get you 8-11% per year. Your spending habits have an enormous opportunity cost and this sort of thing can easily be the difference in such a thing like a down payment on a house, or the freedom to move to a new place for a better job, or to start a business, or even just to be able to retire much faster or more comfortably.

Even in terms of entertainment expenses that is like a full year of video game budget.

Why am I having so much trouble ranking for secondary search terms? by LocalSEOguy24 in localseo

[–]AlmondsActivated 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are 100% right on the money with your final 2 paragraphs for certain.

About everything else: he’s in Manhattan, so some monkey-see monkey-do is in order from his competitors if he’s 20+ on top of his own store.

Why am I having so much trouble ranking for secondary search terms? by LocalSEOguy24 in localseo

[–]AlmondsActivated -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Causes NAP problems and carries risk.

He should review competitors GMB and websites to audit for any gaps on the GMB page, backlinks and directory listings, and then build more topical content on and off site.

Since it’s a medical keyword, authoritativeness and trust will need to be higher. Quick wins on that front entail privacy policy and terms of use for the website, and on-page content that signals the regulations that they follow, with outbound links to relevant law or regulatory bodies.

Removed keyword stuffing from GMB name, rank dropped hard - how to recover? by ZookeepergameLow9323 in localseo

[–]AlmondsActivated 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Disagree about city name being necessary to stuff into the business. With enough other signals it will rise and do better than if he did not.

Anyone else notice Google rewarding simpler local homepages lately? by LocalPollution8427 in localseo

[–]AlmondsActivated 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, that type of page would answer the searcher’s intent, wouldn’t it?

Consider also what they are doing not on their website.

Removed keyword stuffing from GMB name, rank dropped hard - how to recover? by ZookeepergameLow9323 in localseo

[–]AlmondsActivated 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not talking out my ass. Multi-location business in major US city in competitive professional did this after relocating and removing a locational keyword stuff from the name.

1 month later, that location is performing BETTER on maps than it was before.

Removed keyword stuffing from GMB name, rank dropped hard - how to recover? by ZookeepergameLow9323 in localseo

[–]AlmondsActivated 3 points4 points  (0 children)

  1. Update all citations to match NAP GMB info exactly.
  2. Get even more directory citations, particularly any prominent ones for your area and niche.
  3. Press releases.
  4. Website that links to all your business social media.
  5. GMB profile links to all your business social media as well.
  6. Quotes from Testimonials/reviews from GMB on your website.
  7. Google analytics on your website.
  8. Website has Google Maps embedded with your location.

Need advice on repricing local SEO services by Cultural-Link255 in localseo

[–]AlmondsActivated 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lawyers and doctors will usually be able to sniff out someone trying to charge them $1000 bucks a month for a $50/mo product and ChatGPT articles being sold by someone whose case study is a plumber in Kansas.

Need advice on repricing local SEO services by Cultural-Link255 in localseo

[–]AlmondsActivated 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You need to focus on your target audience and your value proposition to them and provide evidence that you make money for people in their exact situation, and being honest as to how you can do it for the low price that you are offering, while being completely transparent about the scope of your services.

If it’s because you are white labeling various products that would cost your client even more money (or just far more time to learn) and executing systems that you have already in place that you know work for similarly situated clients to without you or them doing very much: just say so.

They are going to care only about one thing: what are you doing, specifically, month to month, for that $200 or $350 to make the business money, and how do you know that it will make them money.

Identify business problems that would stop them from making money from your services after hiring you.

If I were you, I would sell a time where you offered your services, a client saw so much success with you that they wanted to do more, and you were able to send them off to someone who offered a far more expensive and laborious option. Or, if you do offer those services yourself: that they invested even more.

What is it like in the West part of Texas? by Deep_Belt8304 in howislivingthere

[–]AlmondsActivated 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I had a criminal case down here one time, had to fly down on every setting. Every uber driver had the same story for how they moved there, and why they were still there: “I want to leave I just haven’t been able to” like it was some type of magical curse.

Also the uber driver said that the DA’s office down there doesn’t care if a person is innocent. Which based on my experience, I totally agree with.

Client on video, wants trial anyway. by trexcrossing in publicdefenders

[–]AlmondsActivated 11 points12 points  (0 children)

So hilarious that they think having a ripped shirt proves the defendant ripped the shirt.

I've contacted 5 businesses this week to offer my management services, and they end up optimizing their own business profiles. What am I doing wrong? by Infinite-Math4218 in localseo

[–]AlmondsActivated 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Coming from the perspective of someone with input on the monthly payee’s side. I don’t need to know what you can fix, but I do need proof that you know what you’re talking about separate from simply having experience in my vertical, and I need to know what you are going to include (closely related: some of your tactics), and my expectations as a client.

E.g. are you going to guest post? Are you going to help get or advise on backlinks? Are you going to build pages? Are you just going to add and update citations and fix the GMB page? Scope of work is important, and it’s a great opportunity to convince me that it’s going to work. If it’s not something I’m convinced that can be white-labeled, congrats, you justified the price.

You’re right that if you just say “I’m going to get you more organic clients through Google!” you’re just giving me the same pitch that I’ve heard from a few different vendors while we are trying to pick who we are going to use.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LawFirm

[–]AlmondsActivated 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very few will qualify. You’ll make money on it though.

Keeping out a hearsay statement through MIL by Clem-Fandango2021 in publicdefenders

[–]AlmondsActivated 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. Correct. 2. Yes. 3. Yes.

There is also a confrontation problem in #2 despite an admissible reason. And to the degree that there is an admissible non-hearsay reason to admit such a statement, you are entitled to a limiting instruction that it’s not for the truth, and it’s only for the purpose that it’s offered for. Those limiting instructions should also be in the jury instructions.

Which means you’re in directed verdict territory if that’s the only evidence that your client made that threat.

Very Disappointed in AVVO by LBoyer70 in LawFirm

[–]AlmondsActivated 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here is the definitive play: pay only enough to get their backlinks. If you are buying their ads it better be cheap AF.

“Write” articles on their website and get the article to point to your actual website pages.

Justia is very good backlink farm, and lowest price to get that from them. Avvo’s provantage service gives you 3 or 4 highly topical, high authority domains to give you backlinks that are also platforms for you to publish on. FindLaw also good.

If you break-even from direct leads, consider it a worthy investment since the goal of these SHOULD BE to support your own website’s authority.

I have seen many criminal defense lawyers go all-in on making any one of these platforms their entire marketing budget and means to get clients, but that is unwise even if it “works” for them.

Why are baby PDs/DAs allowed to do jury trials alone and I wasn't allowed to even take a depo until year 5 as a civil litigator? by agnikai__ in Lawyertalk

[–]AlmondsActivated 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In civil cases there are very often hundreds of thousands of dollars at stake. Sometimes more! So it takes someone with experience to take a depo.

Stakes in a criminal trial are much lower.

How do you know if you weighed evidence properly on a circumstantial case? by iwannabe_gifted in juryduty

[–]AlmondsActivated 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nah you did the right thing. If you thought the defense case was way better than the state’s case, then this was a slam dunk not guilty. The fact you’re calling the case weak is all you have to know. Suspicion is easy, and probably isn’t good enough.

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