Jamie Banks

Jamie Banks

Jamie was BrightLocal's Head of Content from 2017 to 2024. He was responsible for managing a team of talented content marketers producing insightful articles, research, and resources to enable businesses and SEOs to get better results in local search.

Jamie has written 98 articles

Auditing Local Seo Teaser

How to Perform a Local SEO Audit

For today’s consumers, it’s second nature to turn to Google to find a local business, service, or product. Whether that’s an emergency plumber to fix a leak, a restaurant for ...

May 18th, 2022
7 min read
Review Gating

Review Gating

We now live in a world where everything gets a review. What used to be the domain of movies, restaurants, music, and art—and flowed from the pens of critics—is now ...

April 5th, 2022
3 min read
Responding To Online Reviews

Responding to Online Reviews

Responding to both positive and negative reviews is part and parcel of reputation management, but did you know there are several business benefits to doing this? Our latest consumer review ...

April 5th, 2022
3 min read
Monitoring Online Reviews Teaser

Monitoring Online Reviews

If you’re being proactive about building your review profile, review monitoring is an essential activity because it helps you to keep track of what’s being said about you online.  Not ...

April 5th, 2022
3 min read
How To Ask For Reviews

How to Ask for Reviews

Modern consumers use online research to learn more about a product they’re interested in purchasing, a service provider they might hire, or a business they’re interested in working with before they ...

April 5th, 2022
7 min read
What Matter In Onlne Reviews Teaser

What Matters in Online Reviews?

All online reviews are valuable (both good and bad) but not all reviews are created equally. Today’s consumers exhibit a high level of review awareness, with almost 8 in 10 ...

April 5th, 2022
4 min read
Benefits Of Reviews

Benefits of Reviews

Online reviews for local businesses are more important than ever. They’re highly trusted, ubiquitous for pretty much every industry, and are hugely beneficial for your business in a number of ...

April 5th, 2022
7 min read
What Is Review Management Teaser

What Is Review Management?

Online review management involves building a digital public image one online review at a time. Doing so will mean that anyone searching for your brand will discover recent feedback and ...

April 5th, 2022
4 min read
Benefits of Local SEO

What Are the Benefits of Local SEO?

As a local business owner, you may feel there’s little point in investing time and money to optimize your Google presence when you’re competing with Walmart and Amazon for top-tier ...

April 5th, 2022
6 min read
Review Platform Guidelines Teaser

Review Platform Guidelines

As a local business owner, the number of review platforms that you need to consider is large and growing, encompassing both general sites such as Google, Yelp, and Facebook to ...

March 5th, 2022
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