Local SEO Research

You’ll have heard the oft-quoted claim that “content is king”, but for busy business owners, we know investing the time, investment and energy in starting blogging can feel like a ...

The building of local citations is a keystone in local search visibility. When your business’s Name, Address, and Phone number (NAP) are mentioned online in directories, business listings, and other ...

Welcome to the Expert Local Business Link Building Survey Over the last few years, we’ve seen lots of questions from businesses around local link building, and SEO professionals who wanted ...

At the tail end of 2017, we conducted a survey of over 1,000 US-based local SEO professionals from all walks of life, and the results of the Local Search Industry ...

Local business reviews are more important than ever, with 82% of consumers reading reviews for local businesses. We wanted to understand more about the growth of the leading ‘local’ review ...

Working as a local SEO freelancer can feel a world apart from life in an agency, with different pay, services, and priorities affecting every part of the working day. Following ...

Welcome to the Local Search Industry Survey The sixth annual Local Search Industry Survey explores how business practices, pricing, services, attitudes, and growth expectations are changing in the local SEO ...

Welcome to BrightLocal’s 2017 Local Consumer Review Survey You can read about customer reviews in the 2018 report here. Since the introduction of the Local Consumer Review Survey in 2010, ...

Small Google algorithm updates occur virtually every day, with Google tweaking its magic formula continually without warning. While this does make it difficult for SEO professionals to get bored, a ...

So your local business has an awesome review profile. You’ve delivered great service and been rewarded in public with unbiased praise for what you do. Great stuff. But what’s next? ...

Research published this week in BrightLocal’s annual Local Consumer Review Survey report shows that 79% of US consumers believe they’ve read a fake review in the last year, but 84% admit that ...

It’s an age-old question: Should SEOs guarantee the work they do for a client? With so many variables impacting search engine results (like Google algorithm updates, quality content, site structure, ...