Local SEO Webinars

With another year spent monitoring local search trends done and dusted, it’s only natural to take a lingering glance in the rearview mirror. What’s changed? What hasn’t? And, most importantly, what can we learn? For the first BrightLocal Webinar of 2020, host Myles Anderson (BrightLocal) and expert panelists David Mihm (ThriveHive), Joy Hawkins (Sterling Sky),… Read More

Research shows that online reviews and recommendations play a critical role in decision making for both consumers and search engines. This is even more true for local businesses, where competition is at its fiercest. Why then, can it be so hard to convince local business marketers to take reputation management seriously enough to invest in… Read More

How much would you be willing to pay for Google My Business features? That’s effectively what Google asked GMB profile managers in a recent survey, and the response from the local search community was as swift as it was mixed. In our June webinar, InsideLocal host Myles Anderson was joined by Ignitor Digital‘s Mary Bowling,… Read More

Spam is taking over Google My Business, damaging rule-abiding local businesses’ chances of appearing in the local pack due to spammers gaming the system. This epidemic of fake listings, keyword-stuffed business names, and falsified reviews affects local businesses everywhere, and it’s up to local marketers to set businesses straight. In our ‘How to Fight Spam… Read More

For the final webinar of 2018, we gathered a panel of SEO experts to discuss the findings of recent SEO research against the backdrop of this year’s Google algorithm updates. So throw away those crystal balls and join Andrew Shotland (Local SEO Guide), Dana DiTomaso (Kick Point), and Darren Shaw (Whitespark) to find out what… Read More

At the start of August, Google confirmed they were rolling out a broad core algorithm update. This seemed to focus on YMYL websites with low E-A-T. Now that algorithm and SERP analysts have had sufficient time to investigate who the real winners and losers were, we brought together three of the most experienced local search… Read More