Local SEO Blog

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 is UK-based local SEO consultant Claire Carlile, of Claire Carlile Marketing, who talked to us about setting client expectations, the power of GMB Products Editor… Read More

Jamie Pitman
September 19th, 2019

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 websites, but that is all set to change. Google have announced via their webmasters blog that they will will no longer display these star ratings… Read More

Jamie Pitman
September 17th, 2019

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 it something you didn’t do? Or was it (eek)… an update to Google’s search algorithm? There are plenty of free tools out there to help… Read More

Jamie Pitman
September 12th, 2019

Every time you open your phone and search for a local business, something in the SERP has moved or changed. So what’s the solution for PPC? Here, guest contributor Chris St. Jean explains why, at a time of great uncertainty for fast-changing local SERPs, local businesses need a holistic and data-driven approach to paid search.… Read More

Chris St. Jean
August 27th, 2019

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 listings and revealed a host of insights about how businesses and consumers use Google My Business. The full study is well worth a read. But… Read More

Kristian Bannister
August 5th, 2019

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 dive into car dealerships’ exceptional performance in Google My Business, it’s time to take a good look at the other big winners in the field,… Read More

Jamie Pitman
August 1st, 2019