Welcome to BrightLocal’s Voice Search for Local Business Study We’re living in a voice-activated world, with Google Home, Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Microsoft’s Cortana making it into more consumers’ ...
It’s a question SEOs get asked again and again: ‘How can I rank locally in an area outside my city?‘ There are plenty of reasons why you’d want to rank ...
Hot on the heels of the results of our recent poll, in which we asked whether local businesses need a blog (spoiler: 68% think every local business should have one), ...
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 ...
Getting into Google’s Answer Boxes is no mean feat for smaller or local businesses, but it can be achieved with a lot of research and just the right content! Here, ...
We all know that adding pictures to anything on the web grabs a person’s attention and increases engagement. The same goes with your Google Business Profile (formerly known as Google ...
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 ...
Google My Business has recently made some significant updates to the way its directions heatmap works—and to what insights it provides about where searchers are requesting directions to your business ...
Contradictory to the popular phrase, “the customer is always right”, a good client will recognize that isn’t always the case. When it comes to managing your relationship with your local ...
We all know that competition for the top spot on Google is intense, and for some industries it may not be realistic to expect that a small business client will ...
Local SEO can be tricky just for a single local business with one location, but for those with numerous locations across the nation, the same playbook just doesn’t apply. Knowing ...
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 ...