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Yelp is Giving $25 Million in Free Advertising, Making Major Changes During COVID-19 Outbreak

Local Marketing | March 21, 2020 | Local SEO Pro

Yelp, a near essential platform for independent operator restaurants, is giving away $25 million in free advertising for restaurants, bars, and other businesses heavily impacted by the closures of public spaces during the pandemic. While this may not be of much help to restaurants and businesses struggling during the pandemic, once it subsides this free […]

New Car Dealerships Can Now Have Multiple Google My Business Listings

Local SEO | March 11, 2020 | Local SEO Pro

Google My Business made a big change that will have a profound impact on car dealerships effective immediately. That change is that a car dealership is now eligible to have more than 1 listing to represent their brand and the brand of automotive they sell. Up until now new car dealerships were only allowed one […]

Google My Business Will Now Review All Uploaded Photos and Videos Before Publishing Them

Local SEO | March 10, 2020 | Local SEO Pro

Google My Business has a new policy of reviewing all photos and videos uploaded to the platform. There was initially confusion about if this applied to uploads from users, business owners, or both. We've made changes to our photo and video content policy. All photos and videos are now reviewed before publication. If you're having […]

Yelp Has Upgraded The Waitlist Tool for Restaurants

Local Marketing | March 6, 2020 | Local SEO Pro

In a blog post Yelp has announced new features to their Waitlist tool for users that could benefit restaurants that enable them. One upgrade allows users to enter their party size when they start their search on Yelp for Waitlist enabled restaurants that can accommodate large parties. This helps speed up the process and should […]

Personal Injury Attorneys Will Soon Gain Access to Local Service Ads

Google Ads, Local Marketing | March 6, 2020 | Local SEO Pro

Let the games begin folks, Google is informing Personal Injury Attorneys in Los Angeles that they’ll be starting the process of setting up LSA’s for their branch of legal counsel by setting up interviews for information discovery about the space prior to launching the program. Part of an email sent out by a Google Local […]

Google is Telling People How to Buy Fake Reviews on Google Maps

Local SEO | February 25, 2020 | Local SEO Pro

Local SEO Joe Youngblood posted a tweet showing a screenshot a featured snippet on a Google search result that appears to show Google highlighting exactly how a business can purchase fake reviews to promote their business on Google Maps. Great job tackling that review spam Google! pic.twitter.com/7rMNzVpB8r — Joe Youngblood (@YoungbloodJoe) February 24, 2020 Google […]

You Can Now Add Multiple Photos and Videos to Google My Business Posts

Local SEO | February 20, 2020 | Local SEO Pro

Google My Business appears to have quietly began allowing Posts to use multiple photos and videos as reported by Barry over at Search Engine Roundtable. Previously to this change, which appears to have started rolling out on Tuesday the 18th, a post was only allowed to have one photo or video. Now it appears that […]

Yelp Has Launched an In-Store Visits Attribution Metric

Local Marketing | February 17, 2020 | Local SEO Pro

Yelp has been rolling out a lot of new tools, ad types, and features lately in a bid to become more than just a restaurant destination. The latest new feature is called Yelp Store Visits (YSV) and it is exclusively for Yelp advertisers. The idea is that Yelp will gather data on what real people […]

Google My Business is Now Recommending Placing Keywords in Your Business Description to Increase Local SEO Rankings

Local SEO | February 12, 2020 | Local SEO Pro

For about as long as Google My Business has existed Local SEO’s have tested placing keywords in the description to see if that improved rankings. The answer has always been an unfortunate no. Today however, it would appear that the search engineers in charge of Google Maps / Local rankings have had a change of […]

Local SEO’s Have Found Fake Local Businesses on Google Maps in the USA That Are Using Phone Numbers from Pakistan

Local SEO | January 28, 2020 | Local SEO Pro

Google Map spam keeps getting worse and there doesn’t appear to be much help in sight for beleaguered small businesses fighting against spammers in their local market. Now, it appears that trend could start directly hurting consumers. Local SEO expert Joe Youngblood found a new supposed Local SEO agency in his home market of Dallas […]

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