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Google My Business is Automatically Adding Services to Your Local Business Profile

Local SEO | March 1, 2021 | Local SEO Pro

Google’s local platform, Google My Business has been seen automatically adding “services” to your profile. The services are mostly only visible on the back-end of your profile and are rarely shown to users. There is also little evidence that these directly impact your map or finder rankings in Google. However, if one thing about Google […]

Yelp Now Allows Customers To Leave Feedback About Pandemic Related Health Precautions

Local Marketing | January 15, 2021 | Local SEO Pro

Your customers may soon be leaving feedback on Yelp about how your business is handling the COVID-19 pandemic. This comes as we are nearing the end of the first year of the pandemic and as vaccines have begun getting administered. According to a new release, Yelp users can now tell Yelp if they observed social […]

Marcus Lemonis Offering Assistance to Nashville Businesses After Explosion

Local Marketing | December 28, 2020 | Local SEO Pro

Update: Mr. Lemonis claims to have already donated $500,000 into a recovery fund I have put the first $500,000 in! Nashville 30 Day Fund is live and I need your help to spread the word … the most important RT today .. #nashvillerebuild #musiccitywillsingloud https://t.co/TvdzIwsqiy — Marcus Lemonis (@marcuslemonis) December 28, 2020 After a bomb […]

Google My Business Phone Support Has Returned

Local SEO | December 9, 2020 | Local SEO Pro

As the pandemic rolled across the globe forcing lockdowns and shuttering overseas call centers, Google My Business’ phone support was closed down as well as chat support and social media support. While this support isn’t always the most helpful or useful and is rarely used by small businesses there were situations where a phone support […]

Yelp Will Allow Users to Report Businesses For Racist Behavior and Will Add a Notification To Those Business Pages

Local Marketing | October 9, 2020 | Local SEO Pro

Editor’s Note: This article may contain opinions by our staff. For only Yelp’s facts about this new feature please read their release instead. Yesterday Yelp announced a new feature for users, the ability to rate a business listed on the site as racist. The announcement came in the form of a short Twitter thread (embedded […]

Google My Business Lowered The Video Size Requirement Earlier This Year, But Just Now Updated Guidelines

Local Marketing | October 5, 2020 | Local SEO Pro

As the global pandemic was starting to take hold on the other side of the world, Google My Business made a small but crucial change to their video file size requirement, but failed to update their documentation. In a Google Product Forum post dated February 11th, 2020 by Katie Barnes the question was asked why […]

Local Business Will Soon Be Able to Offer Video Conference and Online Classes Through Google My Business

Local Marketing | October 4, 2020 | Local SEO Pro

According to an article on Search Engine Land, local businesses will soon be able to offer video conferencing and virtual classes through their Google My Business profile. The article is based on something spotted on a local SEO agency’s profile and was confirmed by Google as a test. If this test rolls out wider then […]

Websites Are Showing Errors in Chrome, FireFox, Safari, and Edge Browser Due to TLS 1.0 and 1.1 Deprecation

Technology | July 30, 2020 | Local SEO Pro

Update: The deprecation of TLS 1.0 and 1.1 may have been happening the past few days as sparse and unconfirmed reports in various comment threads are pointing out. If your site went down for an error between July 26th and July 30th, 2020 this could be the reason. Your small business website may stop loading […]

Google My Business Offering Upgraded Profiles With a Google Guaranteed Badge for a $50 / Month Subscription

Local SEO | July 22, 2020 | Local SEO Pro

In a shocking announcement Google has stated they will start selling the “Google Guarantee” badge to non-advertisers for a flat-rate of $50 per month. The Google Guarantee program offers unhappy customers up to $2,000 in refunds if they are unhappy with a local service provider’s work. For now this appears to be a test first […]

Edits on Google Maps Can Take a Long Time to Make an Impact

Local SEO | June 27, 2020 | Local SEO Pro

Google My Business allows anyone to edit a listing, and for quality purposes those edits are typically reviewed by human staffers. The process of editing a listing has always gone slowly in most cases, but since the onset of the global pandemic, things have gotten much slower. Recently Local SEOs took to Twitter to share […]

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