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The importance of links, even today, should not be under-estimated, either in Organic or Local Search results. Referencing the Local Search Ranking Factors survey by Moz, link signals account for 18.3% ...
There’s no denying that reviews & reputation management is key to effective local search optimization. Having lots of positive online reviews helps not only with conversion of searchers into leads, but ...
[Update 19/12/19: This study mentions Acxiom. Since retiring its directory and local search offerings in December 2019, Foursquare has stepped in as one of the main four data aggregators.] Welcome ...
From April 21st, Google will be using ‘mobile friendly’ signals as a ranking factor in mobile SERPs. Making the announcement early has given everyone at least some opportunity to prepare, ...
Citation cleanup & citation building are the tasks most commonly outsourced by Local SEOs. In a new feature at BrightLocal, we are running weekly site polls to gather insights into how ...
About the Local SEO Industry Survey Welcome to the Local SEO Industry Survey 2015. This survey, now in its 4th year, is an annual exploration into the Local SEO Industry, ...
In January we published the results of the BrightLocal SMB Internet Marketing Survey 2014. With the results of the survey we can gain a better understanding of the attitudes & usage ...
In January we published the results of the BrightLocal SMB Internet Marketing Survey 2014. With the results of the survey we wanted to gain a better understanding of the attitudes ...
In December we launched a poll to find the most popular Local Search blogs of 2014. In an update to the 2013 vote, we wanted to come up with an ...
Every year a number of local SEOs take on the unenviable task of predicting the ins-and-outs of the local SEO industry for the next 12 months. 12 months can be ...
Another year has almost come to an end. It’s easy to forget how quickly the local search space can change, even over such a short period of time. In this ...
Welcome to findings of the BrightLocal Local Consumer Review Survey 2014. To see the latest data on online customer reviews, see the 2019 Local Consumer Review Survey. This survey is an ...