Mike Hawkes

This article is from our Agency Growth Handbook—a collection of guides created to help local SEO agencies grow and succeed. It is chapter three of ‘Part Two: Processes and Workflows’. Building ...

Since we launched Citation Builder back in 2009, it’s gone from strength to strength. When BrightLocal first started building citations, things were a little different. We only built them on ...

Have you ever thought your local business had just one storefront? Think again. It has dozens. Today’s consumers scour multiple platforms and resources for local business information. They use those ...

A black hat local SEO technique involving moving Google Maps pins causes chaos for local businesses. For consumers, few things are as annoying as heading to a business location only ...

Local citations are a key foundation of local SEO success. The problem is there are just so many providers, so you may well find yourself questioning, ‘Which local citation service ...

This article is from our Agency Growth Handbook—a collection of guides created to help local SEO agencies grow and succeed. It is chapter two of ‘Part One: Pitching and Onboarding‘. ...

This article is from our Agency Growth Handbook—a collection of guides created to help local SEO agencies grow and succeed. It is chapter one of ‘Part One: Pitching and Onboarding‘. ...

It’s been quite a year. It feels like every time I’ve opened my laptop or looked at Twitter (wait, sorry, X… that happened this year too), Google has put out ...

There’s no doubt about it. Yelp (could) be big business for your local business. The reason we say could be? It all comes down to how visible your listing is. ...

The holiday season is fast approaching. Sure, supermarkets probably started stocking cranberry sauce in August, but now’s really the time you’ve got to get focused to make sure your marketing ...

Despite predictions over the years to the contrary, local citations and listings management haven’t gone anywhere. Sure, building citations is more of a foundation-building tactic than a rocket-to-the-moon quick win, ...

Oh boy, here we go. Google I/O is one of Google’s big opportunities to make announcements. And, while it is often used to announce upgrades to tech (like the new ...