We’re super excited to announce an extension to our integration with Google My Business (GMB), that allows BrightLocal users to link their accounts to GMB and import valuable Insights data into their reports. With this update, you get a complete view of your GMB performance alongside all your other local search KPIs – all in […]

Ross Marchant
August 23rd, 2017

We have completed the roll-out of a major update to our Citation Tracker tool. Along with a full redesign of reports, we have upgraded the citation-finding process and added some great new features – such a detailed count of NAP statuses. And we’re not stopping there – we have more improvements coming soon! NAP Status added […]

Ross Marchant
June 7th, 2017

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 even where they should eat. Over time reviews have slowly become an integral part of business on the internet. Numerous studies have been carried out […]

Ross Marchant
March 15th, 2017

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 account, you can now set these up quickly & easily in your BrightLocal account, allowing you to track their SEO performance and build accurate, matching […]

Ross Marchant
March 10th, 2017

What’s new with Local Rank Checker? It’s been a busy few weeks for our Local Rank Checker tool, having been the focus of a number of important updates. To summarise those changes – and to highlight some newer tweaks based on your feedback – we’ve produced the following short video. It also includes a summary […]

Ross Marchant
January 27th, 2017

Google has released an update to the Google My Business API, which now gives full access to location insights data. The new Google My Business API v3.2 means that third party dashboards have access to those insights normally viewed on the GMB dashboard. And this data will be available as far back as 18 months, same as on your […]

Ross Marchant
January 11th, 2017

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 released a duplicate checker for Google My Business, but we’ve also released a major design update for Local Search Rank Checker, focusing on a cleaner […]

Ross Marchant
December 28th, 2016

As the holiday season approaches, the BrightLocal elves have been busy working on some major updates for our local SEO tools. The latest piece of magic to come out of the BrightLocal workshop is our Google My Business duplicate listing finder! Find & eliminate duplicate listings Trying to locate and pinpoint duplicate Google My Business listings has been […]

Ross Marchant
December 21st, 2016

UPDATE: Google+ Local Wizard is now called Google My Business Audit We’ve just released an update to bring some brand new features to our Google Local Wizard tool. With this update you can now filter which info we show on your report, as well as easily view the Local Pack that shows up for your […]

Ross Marchant
November 8th, 2016

What are Online Reputation Management Tools? Reputation Management tools are automated (or semi-automated) software which help local businesses systematically monitor and generate online reviews from their customers. ‘Local’ businesses are business that either have a fixed, physical location where they serve customers (e.g. shops, salons, accountants) or are ‘service’ businesses which travel to their customer’s […]

Ross Marchant
October 5th, 2016