Local SEO Insights

Since November 3, when our local algorithm monitoring tool Local RankFlux alerted subscribers of high volatility in the local pack, the local search community has been abuzz with theories circulating as to what could be causing the major drops and increases in rankings. On Monday, December 2, Google confirmed it had rolled out an update… Read More

Stephanie Newton
December 4th, 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

Google very recently announced the rollout of a significant update to how it handles search queries, called BERT, but how will this affect local search and local businesses? Do you suddenly need to switch up your local search strategy? While it’s still very early days, here’s a primer for BERT and some guidance on what… Read More

Jamie Pitman
October 28th, 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

For a while now, local businesses have been able to push average star ratings from reviews about their businesses to their organic SERP results using review schema markup on their websites, but that is all set to change. Google have announced via their webmasters blog that they will will no longer display these star ratings… Read More

Jamie Pitman
September 17th, 2019

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 which have messaging turned on in the Google My Business app. These buttons appear on Knowledge Panel results for branded searches, so your customers will… Read More

Jamie Pitman
July 25th, 2019

In a blog on June 20th, Google My Business announced a number of exciting initiatives that we believe will help local businesses maximize the impact of their listings. The blog, ‘Helping businesses capture their identity with Google My Business‘, identifies a number of new features to Google My Business. While GMB is busy releasing updates… Read More

Rosie Murphy
June 21st, 2019

Google is always testing new things in Google My Business. Here, contributor Claire Carlile shows us an example which proves that GMB Posts are worth investing in for almost every type of local business. Back In the Day In my Brighton SEO deck from this April, I waxed lyrical about how we were all having… Read More

Claire Carlile
June 20th, 2019