Local SEO Insights

If you’re looking to increase your general and voice search visibility, then you should start thinking about incorporating unique How-To content into your SEO strategy. But how do you find the best topics to cover and frame that in a way that puts the reader before the search engine? Contributor Steve Wiideman covers all angles […]

Steve Wiideman
April 16th, 2019

Question-based queries help guide your content strategy and dominate Google’s featured snippet top spot, so it’s important to have a full understanding of what your customers and prospective customers are asking. Ann Smarty takes us through some of the best question research tools available, and the steps required to help you increase your local search visibility. With […]

Ann Smarty
April 1st, 2019

The power of video is stronger than ever, so now is the time to start incorporating this into your local marketing strategy if you haven’t already. With video at the heart of people’s decision making, whether consciously or not, it’s time to capitalize on this phenomenon to convert your local customers. Kayla Matthews shares her […]

Kayla Matthews
March 13th, 2019

Content marketing presents a fantastic opportunity for local businesses to properly compete with their big brand competitors. With these tips from Emil Kristensen, on everything from ideation and implementation to setup and promotion, you’ll find creating content for local businesses a joy, not a struggle. Run the site of a local business? Looking to grow SEO […]

Emil Kristensen
March 12th, 2019

Why guess at what Google is looking for in a local business website when they have a document that practically spells it out? Here, Marie Haynes uses the Quality Raters’ Guidelines to make a strong case for good reputation, expertise, authoritativeness, trustworthiness, and more. There has been a lot of discussion lately about information that […]

Marie Haynes
February 28th, 2019

We talk a great deal about SEO and online presence, but there’s a real world out there! For local businesses, visibility in the local community is crucial, and a great way to build it is through creative and well-targeted offline marketing. Here, contributor Kayla Matthews provides her six top tips for learning how these IRL […]

Kayla Matthews
December 13th, 2018

Artificial Intelligence is probably only up there with Voice Search as the hot topics in digital marketing, but which technologies can local businesses leverage for improved efficiency and performance? Here, contributor Daniel Bishop takes us through a few of the most high-impact technologies available to businesses. If we take a look back at history, we’ll […]

Daniel Bishop
October 2nd, 2018

Looking to branch into an entirely new market with a different regional culture, and maybe even a new language? Contributor Shane Barker provides his considerations for localizing your content for more conversions. If you want to expand your business and really reach your target markets, you need to develop a content localization strategy. Learning how […]

Shane Barker
September 24th, 2018

Looking for more large-scale ways to generate leads through your content? Here, contributor Ann Smarty takes us through her seven must-have tools, from research to content creation, for better lead-gen through your site. Every year the methods marketing and SEO agencies use to generate leads changes ever so slightly. The need for a solid strategy […]

Ann Smarty
June 7th, 2018

Email marketing expert and guest blogger Kevin George takes a look into how you can personalize your email strategies for better engagement while avoiding the spammy tactics that GDPR is designed to prohibit. In an age of information overload, email marketing can be a powerful tool for your local business. Considering the more limited area […]

Kevin George
April 23rd, 2018