As an agency working with local businesses, you know how important fostering community is to your clients. Good neighbors are their bread and butter — their neighbors are their customers, ...
UPDATE OCTOBER 2021: The recent iOS 15 update has improved the Apple Maps experience, with many exciting developments for local marketers. Read all about the iOS 15 improvements. It’s been ...
Since Day One, BrightLocal has featured all the major players in its powerful local search reporting systems, but in just over three weeks we’ll be saying goodbye to a search ...
Customer feedback is among the most important information your client’s business needs to gather. It is vital not just for retaining existing customers, but also for attracting new users and ...
When BrightLocal CEO Myles Anderson talked to Schema App’s Martha van Berkel at BrightLocal HQ, they opened up a treasure trove of impactful information on the often mysterious schema markup (also ...
Every year, BrightLocal produces its flagship report on online reviews, the Local Consumer Review Survey, and in last year’s results we noticed some alarming trends that we felt worth further ...
This week SEOs web-wide were shaken, as Google’s public search liaison Danny Sullivan announced a big change to featured snippets. Not sure if you’ve been tipped off yet @rustybrick but ...
In Google’s own words, a Google Business Profile (formerly known as Google My Business) is more than just a business listing. The free profile makes it easy for businesses to ...
When Myles Anderson and Ed Eliot first met, they couldn’t possibly have envisaged that 10 years later they’d be heading up a 150-person strong, global operation. The yet-to-be-realized entrepreneurs began ...
With the decade having drawn to a close, here at BrightLocal we’re preparing to don our flapper gear and sashay our way into the Roaring Twenties 2.0 in style. To ...
‘Twas the night before Christmas; all was calm, all was Bright(Local), *insert more Christmas cheesiness here*. In all seriousness, it’s been a pretty big year for us here at BrightLocal ...
Online business listings (aka local citations or online directory listings) are an important aspect of local search optimization. Having an abundance of accurate and enriched listings has been shown to ...