Google very recently announced the rollout of a significant update to how it handles search queries, called BERT, but how will this affect local search and local businesses? Do you ...
[UPDATE MARCH 17th, 2021: Google has released a free tool specifically for escalating review removal requests and managing and tracking those escalations. It’s not particularly suited to agencies that manage ...
The key to executing excellent seasonal content campaigns for a local audience is preparation. Follow contributor Ann Smarty’s advice, use these handy tools, and never again will you be creating ...
Today, we’re pleased to announce the launch of Niche Review Sources for Reputation Manager. Niche Review Sources allows you to monitor and grow reviews on industry-specific websites. You’ll now have ...
In our latest edition of Local Legends, we’re excited to present a conversation between Greg Gifford, VP of Search at SearchLab and BrightLocal CEO, Myles Anderson. Greg visited the BrightLocal ...
Local SEO forums and communities can be incredibly useful sources of knowledge and advice for agencies and local businesses alike, but which ones are worth joining? This time last year, ...
In this new interview series we talk to the people who make a real impact on local search, through their insights, their tools, or their good-old-fashioned hard work. First up ...
For a while now, local businesses have been able to push average star ratings from reviews about their businesses to their organic SERP results using review schema markup on their ...
We’ve all been there: you fire up your ranking-monitoring tool of choice. You see a massive change in rankings. Your heart rate increases. WTF? Was it something you did? Was ...
Research shows that online reviews and recommendations play a critical role in decision making for both consumers and search engines. This is even more true for local businesses, where competition ...
Last month we released our biggest research piece of the year to date, The Google My Business Insights Study. The study was based on analysis of 45,000 Google My Business ...
Our recently-released Google My Business Insights Study took 45,000 GMB profiles across 36 industries and analyzed their Insights to see which industries were outperforming others. Following on from our deep ...