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Twice a year we have to screw with clock and it messes me up every time. 4:17 AM should be 5:17 AM according to my body and between the time change, my dogs (who did not get the memo) and an ear ache, here I am typing a skool post bitchin' rotfmao

working with gpt to make some images ad creatives and mockup coupon mailers

I need people to check https://www.johnmarshall.edu on mobile phones and tablet (in both horizontal and vertical mode) let me know if teh site breaks in anyway please let me know in the comments what device you viewed it on and how it worked. I really need it review of droids as I don't own one. Thanks in advance... p.s. if it does break screencaps and/or error messages would be extremely helpful

Short answer: no. They never were. Long answer: they might still be the most important thing on the list, because they're the only one you can keep working. Let's look at the numbers, then let's argue about it in the comments. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝘂𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 Whitespark published the 2026 Local Search Ranking Factors report on November 6, 2025. 47 local search experts scored 187 factors. Here's the top of the local pack list, the one that decides the Maps three-pack. 1. Primary GBP category 2. Proximity of the address to the point of search 3. Keywords in the GBP business title 4. Physical address in the city of search 5. Business is open at the time of search Reviews finally appear at number 6, as high numerical ratings. Review quantity with text lands at 9. Recency at 11. A steady drip of reviews instead of bursts at 14. Top 10. Not the top of the list. A category dropdown is. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄𝘀 Here's the part that should make every one of you pause. Look at what beats reviews. Category. Proximity. Business title. City. Hours. You set the category once. You can't move your client's building. The title has to match the real-world name or you're playing with a suspension. Hours take five minutes. Every factor above reviews is either a one-time fix or something you don't control. Reviews are the only signal in that top 10 that compounds every month you hold the account. They're also moving up. Darren Shaw's read on this year's data: "the biggest changes we're seeing are an increased importance of review signals and behavioral signals." Now the half nobody mentions. The local organic list, the one that decides your blue-link spot, has a completely different top three: a dedicated page for each service, geographic keyword relevance, and inbound link quality. Reviews don't crack the top 10 there at all. 𝗦𝗼 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗗𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗦𝗮𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗔𝗿𝗲 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴? Because reviews are the only local signal with a number the client can watch go up, and a scoreboard beats a correct answer every time.