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During the last couple of years, the popularity of online reviews has grown significantly. Reviews help people decide which products or services they should buy, where they should travel and ...
We’re excited to announce that you can now import Locations from Google My Business (GMB) into your BrightLocal account. This means that if you have multiple locations in your GMB ...
With the end of the year fast approaching, the BrightLocal team have been busy putting the finishing touches on a number of important tool updates. Not only have we just ...
New Feature: Report Creation Wizard A number of our customers told us that they found it time consuming & frustrating to have to set up different reports (ranking, citation, reviews) individually. And ...
[Update 19/12/19: This study mentions Acxiom. Since retiring its directory and local search offerings in 2019, Foursquare has stepped in as one of the main four data aggregators.] Welcome to ...
Last week we learned that the 3-pack on Google’s local results will soon contain a paid listing, meaning that we’ll essentially have a 2-pack which will limit space for organic ...
Joy Hawkins yesterday reported that Google’s local 3-pack (aka ‘snak-pack’) will soon include an Advert in it. Thus the 3-pack becomes the 2-pack… Hat-tip to Colan Nielsen for using ...
Links are hugely important in search engine marketing, both in terms of local SEO, and Organic. Authoritative links therefore, are in high demand for SEOs, local businesses and big businesses ...
In March (2016) we ran a poll to find out which Local SEO tasks are the most commonly outsourced. This is a poll we originally ran in 2015 & have ...
We recently published the results of an annual survey which explores what consumers want from local business websites. The results were taken from a panel of 800 consumers, all based in the ...
What do local consumers want most from local business websites? In 2014 we ran a survey that explored what local consumers want most from local business websites. We learned that ...
Last month we launched a poll to find the most popular local SEO blogs of 2015. We gave our readers a choice of 35 industry blogs that regularly publish relevant, high ...
In Local SEO, a lot can happen in a year. Whilst many of us are busy reading & making our own local search predictions for 2016, it can be useful ...
In our latest weekly poll we asked our SEO community which KPIs they considered to be the most important for a piece of blog content. We had 398 participants, with 91% from ...