Sam Knight

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Sam Knight is a local SEO consultant, Google Business Profile Gold Product Expert, and founder of Hoopless Marketing. Since 2015, he’s been helping brands magnify their organic reach in various agency and in-house roles, such as Director of Digital Marketing at a behavioral healthcare chain. You can find him sharing his local SEO experience on LinkedIn or helping merchants on the GBP Help Community.

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Showing Value Beyond The Deliverables: Tips For SEO Client Retention

by Sam Knight

This article is from our Agency Growth Handbook—a collection of guides created to help local SEO agencies grow and succeed. It is chapter four of ‘Part 3: Retention & Growth’. In ...

March 20th, 2025

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How to Delete or Remove a Google Review: The Appeal and Dispute Process

by Sam Knight

If you’ve ever reported a Google review and were left at a loss after a rejection email, you aren’t alone. Hundreds of thousands of Google Business Profile (GBP) users are ...

October 3rd, 2024

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New Policies & Shady Review Schemes: Is Google Helping or Hurting?

by Sam Knight

What’s going on with Google, fake reviews, and “review removal” services right now? BrightLocal contributor and Google Business Profile Gold Product Expert, Sam Knight, takes on the thorny issue and ...

September 19th, 2024

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