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You Can No Longer Call Google My Business For Support

Local SEO | November 13, 2019 | Local SEO Pro

2+ Up until this week Google Partners had been able to call and get phone support from Google My Business. This offered a HUGE relief to Local SEOs and consultants who found a client’s business profile (or their own in the case of Joe Youngblood’s agency and his now year-long odyssey) being frequently and erroneously […]

Yelp Introduces Personalized Search Results

Local Marketing | August 27, 2019 | Local SEO Pro

1+ For the first time Yelp is allowing signed in users to personalize their Yelp experience. Users on Yelp can now set up their profile to personalize results based on diet, lifestyle, and accessibility. To do this users on the app tap a heart icon and start selecting things they like. Yelp explains that this […]

What Each Status in Your GatherUp Customer Activity Dashboard Means

Local Marketing, Local SEO | August 21, 2019 | Local SEO Pro

2+ GatherUp is an online tool used by small and local businesses to gather feedback from their customers and request online reviews across a variety of platforms. The software is capable of sending emails to customers requesting feedback and then sending follow up emails based on the initial feedback a customer provides. Ultimately, many businesses […]

Advice Local Has Launched Lawyer and Healthcare Vertical Specific Citation Products

Local Marketing, Local SEO | August 21, 2019 | Local SEO Pro

1+ Local Data management provider Advice Local has launched new vertical specific products to help Laywers and businesses in the Healthcare space. Their announcement says the new products will help businesses get found on authoritative niche websites such as RateMD’s and FindLaw. This should be a useful service for small businesses trying to wrangle their […]

You Can Sync Your Bing Places Listing With Your Google My Business Listing

Local SEO | August 16, 2019 | Local SEO Pro

1+ According to a tweet by SEO Scott Hendison Bing Places has a new (or at least new to us) feature that allows a business to sync their Bing Places listing with their Google My Business listing. Make changes to Google? Those changes will get imported to Bing via the API. There is a limitation […]

Poll: Do Citations Still Matter for Local SEO?

Local SEO | July 24, 2019 | Local SEO Pro

3+ A talk by Darren Shaw of White Spark at Mozcon this year is sparking off a bit of an argument in Local SEO. It led Mike Blumenthal and David Mihm to discuss it in their bi-weekly column on Street Fight Magazine. That question is, do citations or citation consistency still matter for Local SEO? […]

A Bug in Google Has Taken Down the Google My Business Suspension Reinstatement Request Form

Local SEO | July 18, 2019 | Local SEO Pro

3+ UPDATE: Sometime this past weekend the Resintatement Request form came back online. According to Local SEOs it was likely down for around 48 hours. We verified at 10:00 AM Central time that the form was indeed functioning. Screenshot below shows the form as we saw it on Monday the 22nd of July 2019 at […]

Google My Business Might Suspend Your Listing if You Create a Short Name

Local SEO | July 10, 2019 | Local SEO Pro

3+ In what appears to be a bug, Google My Business might be suspending accounts. The issue was first reported in a private SEO group on Facebook by local SEO Mike Friedman. A screenshot of Mike’s post was taken by Joe Youngblood and posted to Twitter where it went about as viral as a post […]

Yelp Wants to Become A Remote Control for People’s Lives

Local Marketing | July 2, 2019 | Jason C.

2+ Yelp is a publicly-traded company; therefore, it has one ultimate goal: make money. If it doesn’t make money, investors won’t give money to the company. Yelp, in an effort to appease its investors, has now detailed a growth plan which will allow it to expand outside of restaurant reviews (what’s the review website is […]

What Examining 150,000 Small Business Websites Reveals About Local SEO

Local SEO | June 29, 2019 | Jason C.

2+ In order to rank highly in search results, especially Local search results, it’s important to consider what factors are involved. One of the best ways to gauge this is by examining websites that are already in these spots—and those that aren’t. FreshChalk has done that just. As a matter of fact, they’ve examined a […]

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