Local SEO Blog

Google very recently announced the rollout of a significant update to how it handles search queries, called BERT, but how will this affect local search and local businesses? Do you suddenly need to switch up your local search strategy? While it’s still very early days, here’s a primer for BERT and some guidance on what… Read More

Jamie Pitman
October 28th, 2019

At BrightLocal, we firmly believe that our tools should be as intuitive and easy to use as possible, that our Customer Success team should always be on hand to help, and that the information you need to get the most from our products and services is at your fingertips when it’s needed. While we’ve been… Read More

Vicky Chandler
October 24th, 2019

Today, we’re pleased to announce the launch of Niche Review Sources for Reputation Manager. Niche Review Sources allows you to monitor and grow reviews on industry-specific websites. You’ll now have access to 47 Niche Review Sources across 14 industries. These include Expedia, RateMDs, Lawyers.com, and many more. Rather than putting every source into your Reputation… Read More

Kristian Bannister
October 7th, 2019

In our latest edition of Local Legends, we’re excited to present a conversation between Greg Gifford, VP of Search at SearchLab and BrightLocal CEO, Myles Anderson. Greg visited the BrightLocal UK office just ahead of the Brighton SEO conference to share his thoughts on, well, pretty much everything local! We ended up with a  interview… Read More

Jamie Pitman
October 3rd, 2019

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