Google Business Profile

With the decade having drawn to a close, here at BrightLocal we’re preparing to don our flapper gear and sashay our way into the Roaring Twenties 2.0 in style. To ...

There are a few things that can derail your local SEO efforts: insufficient reviews, an excess of negative feedback, too few Google Business Profile (GBP) signals, inconsistent NAP (name, address, ...

[Update: November 28th, 2019] After Local RankFlux initially tracked higher than usual ranking fluctuations at the beginning of November, new theories have emerged as the local search community tries to ...

It’s time to gather around the campfire and tell some spooky Google My Business (GMB) horror stories. Since he shares the name of Friday the 13th killer Jason Voorhees, it’s ...

[UPDATE MARCH 17th, 2021: Google has released a free tool specifically for escalating review removal requests and managing and tracking those escalations. It’s not particularly suited to agencies that manage ...

Joe awoke one morning to find that the phones were not ringing for his business. He then had some people calling in from billboard advertisements, but they were calling to ...

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 ...

Last month we released our biggest research piece of the year to date, The Google My Business Insights Study. The study was based on analysis of 45,000 Google My Business ...

Our recently-released Google My Business Insights Study took 45,000 GMB profiles across 36 industries and analyzed their Insights to see which industries were outperforming others. Following on from our deep ...

In a move that will excite service-level businesses wanting more traction from their Google My Business efforts, Google is rolling out frankly massive ‘Get a Quote’ buttons for relevant businesses ...

Our recently released Google My Business Insights Study uncovered a wealth of data (from no less than 45,000 businesses) on how consumers find and interact with businesses via their GMB ...

Google My Business Insights is one of the most useful tools in a local marketer’s arsenal, but it comes with its own set of challenges. With little out there to ...