gmediaco.com

Top 5 issues

1. Not found for the searches that bring new clients

   G Media did not appear in the top 20 web results for "las vegas marketing agency", "video production las vegas", "podcast studio las vegas" or "social media marketing las vegas". Its best showing was #11 (page two) for "las vegas content agency". Directories (Clutch, Yelp, DesignRush) and competitors such as Levy, FiveSix, In Color Studios, Level 9 Studios and Social Media LV fill those results. The site has 86 pages written for these topics, and they are not ranking yet.

2. Missing from Google Maps for all five core searches

   The Google Business Profile is set up and rated 5.0★, but it did not appear in the top 20 Maps results for any of the five searches, including "podcast studio las vegas", even though G Media runs a four-set studio. It has 31 reviews. The businesses shown first have between 4 and 896, and the video and podcast leaders have 27 to 106.

3. AI assistants do not name G Media

   Asked for the best marketing agency, video production company, podcast studio and social media agency in Las Vegas, an AI-summarized search named 37 different companies across the four answers. G Media was not one of them. The site has the technical pieces AI tools look for (an llms.txt file, business schema, open crawler access), but the answers come from Clutch, Expertise, GoodFirms, Yelp and "best of" lists where G Media has no listing or reviews.

4. Good on phones, but not fast yet

   Lighthouse scores the mobile homepage 79 to 88 across three runs. The main image appears at 3.3 to 4.2 s (Google's "good" line is 2.5 s). The video production page scores 70 because the cookie notice moves the page as fonts load (layout shift 0.30, where 0.25 and up is rated "poor"). Desktop scores 98.

5. Two names and two addresses across the web

   The site says "G Media, 4160 S Durango Dr, Unit 140". Yelp lists "Galindo Media" at "4160 S Durango Rd 120", and two MapQuest listings use suite 120. Search results still show old page titles such as "About Galindo Media" and "Meet the Galindo Media Team", and www.galindo-media.com, which still appears in results, does not load. Mismatched names and addresses weaken the local signals Google uses for Maps.

Scorecard

Also worth fixing

6. The studio tour button books something else

   The studio tour page promises a free 20-minute walk-through in person and says "Calendly opens with available tour times". Every "Book a Tour" and "Book This Studio" button opens a Google Calendar page titled "30 min with Corey", a Google Meet video call. Its Instagram link goes to a personal account, not @gmedia.lv.

7. A video company with little video in its case studies

   13 of the 14 case studies have no video player on the page. They show stills or link out to Instagram. The Center for Aesthetic Medicine study has an empty "The videos" section. The podcast studio and social media management pages have no video either.

8. One headline claim has no source

   The case studies are careful: every number has a date and a source. The apply page headline says "50M+ views we've built" with no source, while the largest sourced view count in a case study is 81,495. A buyer who checks may question the rest.

9. Forms vary from 3 to 11 required fields

   The homepage audit form asks for 3 things. The "full form" on /apply-for-marketing requires 11 (including phone, budget, decision maker and timeline), and /content-partner has a third version with 12 fields. That page is indexable but missing from the sitemap.

10. Small leftovers

    One client logo links to a site that no longer loads (rcghomeloans.com). http://gmediaco.com takes 2 redirects to reach the homepage. The site sends no HSTS header. The email address is hidden behind Cloudflare's email protection, which bots see as a broken link. An old /thank-you-for-the-interest page still listed in search returns 404.

Fast server, close to "good" on phones

What slows it down

• The server is quick (first byte in about 50 ms on Cloudflare). The delay comes after that.
• The main element is a small (40 KB) poster image, but it waits about 1.2 to 1.7 s before it starts loading and another 1 to 1.4 s before it is drawn, behind the Google Fonts stylesheet and page scripts.
• A 2 MB hero video plays on phones (4.5 MB on desktop). It is the largest file on the page.
• Ad and analytics tags (Google tag, Google Ads, Meta pixel) add about 560 KB and block the phone's processor for about 420 ms. An estimated 211 KB of JavaScript goes unused.
• Images could be about 159 KB smaller if sized for phones, and 47 files have short cache times.
• Other pages: studio tour 80 (main image at 4.1 s); video production 70, where the cookie notice jumps up the screen when the web font loads.
• Best practices scores 79 because the Google Ads and Meta tags set third-party cookies.

Method: Lighthouse 12, the engine behind PageSpeed Insights. Our PageSpeed Insights API quota was used up on 10/6 (the request returned a quota error), so the same test ran locally with default mobile emulation (slow 4G) and the desktop preset, as in the GGRE audit. The mobile homepage test ran three times; the table shows the first run. Real-user (Chrome UX Report) data was not available. Re-run: pagespeed.web.dev.

Clear and easy to use, once the cookie notice is gone

• No sideways scrolling on any of the 14 pages tested. Lighthouse accessibility scores 96 to 98.
• First screen: "Las Vegas Marketing Agency" as the headline, one line on what G Media does, a "Get a free marketing audit" button and a playing studio video. The 5.0★ rating sits just below.
• A sticky bottom bar keeps the audit button and a call button in reach on every page.
• The cookie notice is large. It is 121 px tall and sits above the sticky bar. With the header, about 260 px of an 844 px screen is covered until a visitor taps OK. On the homepage it covers the last field of the audit form.
• Inline text links are about 21 to 23 px tall, and the photo dots on the tour page are 6 px. Google recommends tap targets of at least 48 px.
• The studio tour, apply and pricing guide pages drop the main menu. From there, services are reachable only through the footer or a back link.

Strong plumbing, some old traces

Working

• HTTPS everywhere. https://gmediaco.com and http://www.gmediaco.com reach www.gmediaco.com in one 301 hop.
• /sitemap.xml lists 86 pages, and a video sitemap lists 22 videos. Both are named in /robots.txt.
• Every crawled page has its own title and meta description, exactly one H1 and a canonical tag. Lighthouse SEO scores 100.
• Old URLs from the previous site (/about-us, /team, /talk-show, /cozy-corner, /contact-us, /blogs) all 301 to the matching new pages.
• The homepage carries Organization, LocalBusiness/ProfessionalService (with address, hours, map location and review rating), a service catalog and an FAQ. Blog posts carry Article and FAQ markup.
• Images have alt text. The duplicate logo strip used for the scrolling effect is correctly hidden from screen readers.

Missing or wrong

• Old names in the index. Brave's index still shows earlier titles for current URLs, such as "Professional Content Creation Agency in Las Vegas | Galindo…" for /services. The live titles are correct; the index has not caught up.
• One broken link. 236 links were checked. One client logo points to rcghomeloans.com, which fails to connect. Facebook, Cooler Living and Cloudflare refused automated requests and were not counted.
• Email protection. The email address is wrapped by Cloudflare's email obfuscation. Browsers show it correctly; crawlers see a link to /cdn-cgi/l/email-protection, which returns 404.
• Redirect chain. http://gmediaco.com goes to https://gmediaco.com, then to www: two hops where one would do. No HSTS header is sent.
• A page outside the sitemap. /content-partner is indexable and linked, but not listed in the sitemap.
• Heading order. Footer headings jump from H2 to H4, which Lighthouse flags as an accessibility issue.

Crawl: every page reachable from the homepage plus the sitemap (90 URLs, 236 unique links), October 6, 2026. The 150-page limit was not reached. The sitemap shows 28 pages changed on the day of this audit, so some details may differ from one hour to the next.

A perfect rating, not enough reviews to show up

• Google Business Profile: G Media, 4160 S Durango Dr Ste 140, Las Vegas, NV 89147, (702) 499-5111, Monday to Friday 9 to 5. The website link carries tracking tags. Place ID ChIJ289Vm9vHyIARGmqLYVxjEp8. The newest of the five reviews Google returns is 7 months old.
• Maps visibility (top 20). Not found for "las vegas marketing agency", "video production las vegas", "podcast studio las vegas", "social media marketing las vegas" or "las vegas content agency". Ranking first instead:
  • Las Vegas Premier Marketing: 4.9★, 896 reviews (marketing)
  • Iconier Digital Marketing: 5.0★, 130 reviews (marketing, content)
  • In Color Studios: 5.0★, 45 reviews (video)
  • FiveSix Productions: 5.0★, 92 reviews (video)
  • Level 9 Studios: 4.9★, 49 reviews (podcast)
  • Vegas Podcast Studios: 5.0★, 27 reviews (podcast)
  • Social Media LV: 5.0★, 4 reviews (social media)
• NAP (name, address, phone). Phone and address match between the site and Google. Elsewhere the business still appears as "Galindo Media": Yelp at "4160 S Durango Rd 120" and two MapQuest listings at suite 120. A third MapQuest listing at the same address is "Galindo Buys Houses".
• Directories. Search did not turn up a Clutch, DesignRush, Sortlist or Expertise profile with reviews. A Tagvenue listing for "Galindo Media Studio" exists.
• Schema. Complete: LocalBusiness and ProfessionalService with address, coordinates, hours, rating, service area and social profiles.

Source: Google Places API (place details and text search), biased to central Las Vegas, October 6, 2026. This approximates the Maps results but is not a live map pack. A search for "g media las vegas" returns the profile at #1.

Found by name, not by service

Two kinds of pages win these searches: directories and "best of" lists (Clutch, Yelp, DesignRush, Expertise), and competitors whose sites have years of links and reviews behind them. G Media has the right pages (a page per service, per industry and per area, plus 25 blog posts and 7 guides), so the gap is authority: links from other sites, directory listings and reviews. Most of the service pages were rebuilt recently, and new pages usually take months to rank.

Brave Search API, US, top 20 results, October 6, 2026. Google blocks automated queries, so this approximates Google. Positions vary by location and device. Search Console is the source of truth; it was deliberately not used here so the method matches the other two audits.

Ready for AI, not yet recommended by it

• Not named when people ask for the best. Four AI-summarized searches, and G Media appeared in none:
  • "best marketing agency in Las Vegas": Nativz, Anderson Collaborative, Searchbloom, Noble Studios, MassMedia, Levy Online and 7 others
  • "best video production company in Las Vegas": Whisenhunt Media, Fame Crew, Levy Production Group, FiveSix, Mr. Camera, InColor and others
  • "best podcast studio in Las Vegas": Sticky Paws, Sin City Podcast Studios, Level 9, The Space LV, Las Vegas Podcaster Studios, HyperX Arena
  • "best social media marketing agency Las Vegas": Web Tonic, MassMedia, Thrive, KWSM, Moore Marketing and 9 others
  The sources were Clutch, Expertise, GoodFirms, Sortlist, Yelp, Fame.so and similar lists. G Media's own blog post "Which Las Vegas Podcast Studio Is Best?" was not cited.
• Described accurately when asked by name. A search for G Media returned the right services, address, phone and email. It drew partly on old indexed pages titled "Galindo Media", and it said "five in-house studios" while the site now says four sets.
• Crawler access is open and explicit. robots.txt names and allows OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and others.
• llms.txt is in place (/llms.txt), with the legal name, former name, address, services and co-founders.

ChatGPT, Perplexity and Copilot were not queried live because they need a login or block automated access. The check used a public web search with an AI-written summary, as in the other two audits.

Real numbers, too few videos

• Case studies: 14, on /work. Most list a date range, the numbers, "how we count" and a source for every figure. Example: Galindo Group Real Estate, 37 reels and 81,495 Instagram views from May 4 to October 5, 2026.
• Whose results. The two case studies with the biggest business results, Bahtana (3,066 orders, $130K+ in sales) and Jungle Root, are brands G Media "built and run", as the pages say. Several client studies count what was made (videos, clips, content days) more than what it did for the client.
• Video: the homepage hero, three project videos on /work and /video-production, YouTube embeds on the real estate and ROC 1954 pages, and a 22-video sitemap. 13 of 14 case studies have no video player. The CAM study says its videos will appear once the client posts them. The podcast studio page shows photos of the sets but no clip recorded in them.
• Reviews: a live Google reviews block on the homepage (5.0★, 31). Some of the quoted reviews still say "Galindo Media".
• Blog and guides: 25 blog posts and 7 guides, all Las Vegas-focused and recent. About 114,000 words across 89 pages.
• Unsourced claim: the apply page says "50M+ views we've built" and "30+ Vegas brands", with no source, unlike the case studies.

Many doors, not all labeled right

• Working:
  • A 3-field "free marketing audit" form high on the homepage (name, email or phone, website or Instagram)
  • Tap-to-call in the header and the sticky bottom bar on every page, plus email and address in the footer
  • A free instant SEO scan, a pricing guide and published rates ("Videography is $250 per hour")
  • Forms capture where the visitor came from (UTM tags, Google and Meta click IDs)
• The tour button opens a video call. The studio tour page offers a 20-minute in-person walk-through via Calendly. The buttons open a Google Calendar page for "30 min with Corey" with a Google Meet link. A visitor who books it may not know whether to drive to the studio.
• Four different forms: 3 fields on the homepage, 4 on the pricing guide, 13 (11 required) on /apply-for-marketing and 12 on /content-partner.
• No chat or text-us option.
• Nothing was submitted, so confirmations and response times were not tested.

The main tags are in place

• Present:
  • Google Analytics 4 (one property, sending page views, verified)
  • Google Ads tag
  • Meta pixel
  • Cloudflare Web Analytics
  • Source capture on forms (UTM, gclid, fbclid)
• Not found:
  • TikTok pixel (G Media posts on TikTok)
  • LinkedIn Insight tag
  • Call tracking
• It could not be confirmed from outside whether a form submission is recorded as a GA4 key event or an Ads conversion, because no form was submitted.

Method: every network request on the homepage was recorded for 10 seconds in a desktop browser.

About the custom static setup

• The site is hand-built HTML, CSS and JavaScript, hosted on Cloudflare Pages. There is no CMS. G Media built it and maintains it.
• What the setup handles well: fast server responses, full control over titles, schema, redirects, llms.txt and sitemaps, and no platform script overhead. These all check out here.
• Where it limits this site: every edit needs someone who can work in code, and the custom parts (the cookie notice, the review widget) have to be tested by the team. The layout shift on the video production page comes from one of those parts.
• Everything flagged in this audit can be fixed in the current setup. None of it needs a new platform.

What we are fixing first

• Reviews and listingsA steady review-request routine for every finished project (target 60+ on Google), plus Clutch, Expertise, DesignRush and Yelp profiles with reviews, since those pages rank and feed AI answers.
• One name and one address everywhereCorrect the Yelp and MapQuest listings to "G Media, 4160 S Durango Dr, Unit 140", and fix or retire www.galindo-media.com.
• Links from other sitesGet named on the "best of" lists and local press that win these searches, starting with the video production and podcast studio topics.
• Phone-first speedLoad fonts without blocking, show the poster first and the video after, defer the ad tags, and fix the cookie notice so it never moves the page. Target: LCP under 2.5 s and a mobile score above 90.
• Video on the proof pagesA playable video on every case study and on the podcast studio and social media pages, with video schema.
• An honest tour buttonEither book a real in-person tour or relabel it as a 30-minute video call.
• Source or remove the headline claims"50M+ views" and "30+ brands" get a source like the case studies, or come down.
• One short formThe 3-field form everywhere, with the longer questions asked on the call.
• Tracking that matches our channelsTikTok pixel and form submissions confirmed as GA4 key events and Ads conversions.
• HousekeepingFix the dead client link, add /content-partner to the sitemap, make http://gmediaco.com one hop, add HSTS, and fix the footer heading order.

How this was checked

• All checks were read-only, on October 6, 2026, using the same steps as the Mackin Media and GGRE audits. No forms were submitted.
• Speed: Lighthouse 12, mobile and desktop presets, homepage (3 mobile runs), studio tour and video production pages. The PageSpeed Insights API quota was used up that day.
• Mobile: Chromium at 390×844 (iPhone width), 14 pages.
• Crawl: 90 URLs and 236 links from the homepage and the sitemap.
• Local: Google Places API details and text search.
• Rankings: Brave Search API, US, top 20, approximate.
• AI search: a public web search with an AI-written summary; AI crawler rules read from robots.txt.
• Tracking: network requests recorded in a desktop browser.
• G Media's own Search Console, analytics and ad accounts were not used, so the evidence matches what we could see for the other two sites.