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 though, […]

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? We’ve […]

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 10am. […]

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 about […]

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 massive […]

Moz is changing! And their changes are quite unexpected. We thought, based on the information they provided previously, that Moz Local might be expanding with new features. This is partly true. What’s really happening, however, is that Moz Local is greatly downsizing. Moz Local and Uberall Here’s the real story with the new Moz Local: […]

Google continues to tinker with its Local Pack. They do this in part to increase user engagement as well as find a way which optimizes the success of businesses. After all, Google makes money in part by offering paid ads. The better the ad placement, the more clicks companies will get and the more often […]

Same local query on Google, DuckDuckGo, and Bing. Google sucks on mobile. pic.twitter.com/kzp2dON5kg — Joe Youngblood (@YoungbloodJoe) May 15, 2019 The major search engines — Google, DuckDuckGo, Bing — compete with each other to get the most users. One of the ways these engines compete is by optimizing how they return information in search results. […]

Moz Local is an important resource for local companies. Case in point: businesses that are looking to gain some local exposure can purchase a NAP (name, address, phone number) plan from Moz Local. This will allow the company to increase their rankings in search results because having a proper NAP is a ranking signals to […]

Google My Business provides incredible insights for local-based companies. Because of these insights, these companies are able to optimize how they reach and engage with their customers. Google My Business is meant to provide as much data as possible; however, we recently learned that the platform isn’t providing all types of data, yet. Joy Hawkins, […]