I deleted the category so please un-suspend us. Shotland’s request went something like this: “Hey GMB, I added a new service category and got suspended. When Shotland didn’t get quick results, he turned to Steven Saldana, LSG’s GMB problem-solver, to

‘SEO Agency’ must be on the double-secretĭo-not-use list because as soon as I added it, our listing got suspended.” “While in there, for some reason, I decided to add “SEO agency” as a Business Category. Then he forgot about it, until February.įebruary, while in a 20-person Zoom meeting on how much we should freak out about Core Web Vitals, I logged into LSG’s GMB dashboard to see if maybe we had been moved to Colorado (hopefully nearĪspen),” Shotland wrote in a post. He said Local SEO Guide doesn’t really rely on the company’s GMB page for leads, but sent a note to GMB support for help. According to GMB, he moved and opened a hotel, all in the midst of COVID-19. Not only did GMB somehowĬhange the location of this business, but said the company apparently opened a hotel, as Shotland wrote in a post. MediaPost about search, I’ve learned that Blumenthal and Local SEO Guide Founder Andrew Shotland are two funny and smart SEO guys.

Thank you, Mike Blumenthal, Near Media co-founder and authority on local search, for calling this to our attention in a tweet. Well, not so funnyīecause Local SEO Guide, an SEO agency, was never located in Kansas, but Google My Business believes the Pleasanton, California, company has been located in Fawn Creek Township, KS, since November We have to see to it that our search for rest should not get stuck in the level of our physical, emotional and intellectual conditions alone.A funny thing happened on the way to Kansas. I imagine that these virtues were highlighted because they are the ones that would open the gates of our soul to receive God’s grace, to be guided by faith rather than simply by our senses and emotions and even by our intellectual powers. Short of this, our rest would be at best only apparent, and cannot cope with the over-all demands and pressures of our life.įor this he advises us to learn from him, particularly in his meekness and humility. Mt 11,29) This is the real rest that is indeed meant for us. It’s an all-weather kind of rest.Ĭhrist offers us the due rest for our soul that can be harassed by the problems of this world and the requirements of our lifelong pursuit for holiness and apostolate. It is a rest that can be had in all situations, conditions and circumstances in life. It is a rest that is mainly spiritual and supernatural, an effect of grace rather than just worldly and natural elements. It goes beyond simply having some social peace in the world. It’s a rest that goes beyond the merely physical, mental, emotional aspects of rest. We have to understand then that we can have our real rest only in and with God.

Without that faith, there is no way we can manage to do the things of God and get its assured rest and reward. This Christ-given rest can only come to us if we, first of all, have a living faith in the things of God. That Christ suffered and died and then resurrected should give us the assurance that our real rest is assured as long as we do everything together with him and for him. If we do and bear the yoke and burden of Christ, rest is assured, even if along the way we can encounter pain and suffering. It can even be a sweet poison as it can lead us to some dangers in an attractive way. We may have some sensation of rest, according to some worldly standards, but it would not be the real one. In other words, if we would just do our own things, we cannot really have the true rest offered to us by Christ. These words from the very pattern of our humanity tell us that we can find true rest only in Christ, and that rest can come to us if we do and bear the yoke and burden of Christ which, according to him, are easy and light. For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.” (Mt 11,28-30) Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart and you will find rest for yourselves. “Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest. We should know the real truth about rest.Ĭhrist said it clearly. There are now many ideas about what and how it should be, all of them giving us some truth about rest, but there can only be one real definition of rest and one proper way of having it. We have to know what true rest is and how we can have it.

True rest