Local SEO Insights

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

‘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

Today, we’re proud to announce a major update to Reputation Manager with the release of Review Inbox. What is Review Inbox? Review Inbox makes multi-location reputation management simpler. Now you can see every customer review, for every location you manage in BrightLocal, from the comfort of a single feed.  With Review Inbox you can: See… Read More

Kristian Bannister
November 27th, 2019

How much time do you spend setting up marketing reports for a client or for your business? A couple of hours? A whole day? Well, in BrightLocal you can now do it in under five minutes! That’s because we’ve just made a major upgrade to our Report Creation Wizard. At BrightLocal, we’ve always been dedicated… Read More

Kristian Bannister
November 22nd, 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

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

Today we’re launching a highly-requested feature for Reputation Manager: Client Access. Client Access is designed to help agencies streamline review generation for their clients. It lets your clients log in into their own Reputation Management dashboard, allowing them to: See their latest reviews Figure out their overall reputation through easy-to-understand charts Easily reply to Facebook… Read More

Kristian Bannister
July 29th, 2019