Local SEO Blog

This week SEOs web-wide were shaken, as Google’s public search liaison Danny Sullivan announced a big change to featured snippets. Not sure if you’ve been tipped off yet @rustybrick but big changes recently to featured snippets. If you own the featured snippet, you only get that one listing and your ‘normal organic’ ranking is pushed… Read More

Stephanie Newton
January 23rd, 2020

With the new year comes a brand new way to monitor local search and organic rankings within BrightLocal’s Local Search Rank Checker. Historically, we’ve combined organic and Local Pack rankings into a single display, but after plenty of consultation with customers, we’ve decided to provide the option to have these two types of rankings displayed… Read More

Jamie Pitman
January 6th, 2020

When Myles Anderson and Ed Eliot first met, they couldn’t possibly have envisaged that 10 years later they’d be heading up a 150-person strong, global operation. The yet-to-be-realized entrepreneurs began their decade-long partnership at a national radio station, before buying a directory. Thus began their first foray into the world of local search marketing.  After… Read More

Stephanie Newton
January 3rd, 2020

With the decade having drawn to a close, here at BrightLocal we’re preparing to don our flapper gear and sashay our way into the Roaring Twenties 2.0 in style. To celebrate the end of a very eventful year — the year in which that Google My Business survey, BERT, and of course, the Bedlam Update,… Read More

Stephanie Newton
January 2nd, 2020

‘Twas the night before Christmas; all was calm, all was Bright(Local), *insert more Christmas cheesiness here*. In all seriousness, it’s been a pretty big year for us here at BrightLocal — in fact, it’s been a pretty big year worldwide, but that’s a conversation for another time. As the year, and the decade too, draws… Read More

Stephanie Newton
December 20th, 2019

Today we’re announcing a change to the data aggregators offered through our Citation Builder service. As you might know, Acxiom, one of the ‘Big Four’ data aggregators, will be discontinuing its data layer from 31st December, 2019, leaving a large gap in the arsenal of citation builders. The good news is that for the last… Read More

Jamie Pitman
December 19th, 2019