BrightLocal’s 2018 Year in Review… and a Taste of What’s Next
by Jamie Pitman
2018 was a busy year for local marketers, with a whole host of new Google updates and tools to wrap our heads around. And for us here at BrightLocal, it ...
by Jamie Pitman
2018 was a busy year for local marketers, with a whole host of new Google updates and tools to wrap our heads around. And for us here at BrightLocal, it ...
by Jamie Pitman
Big news for Service Area Businesses (SABs) this week, as Google has confirmed and rolled out a change to the way you set your service area in Google My Business ...
by Jamie Pitman
Google just announced a feature that should come as no surprise to anyone who wondered how they would fill the void left by Google+. In an announcement on their blog ...
by Jamie Pitman
UPDATE: BrightLocal’s Reputation Manager now offers you the ability to reply directly to Facebook Recommendations from within the platform! Although earlier this year Facebook was testing a new 10-point review ...
We’re excited to announce a milestone for our Lead Generation Widget: to date, 5,000 new leads have been generated using the tool! Since launching this powerful and customizable new way ...
by Jamie Pitman
Back at Pubcon in 2016, Google’s Gary Illyes announced the search engine’s plans to switch to a mobile-first index, which would prioritize websites in rankings based on suitability for use ...
by Jamie Pitman
As first reported by Mike Blumenthal last Thursday, Google have confirmed that anonymous Google reviews have been removed from public view, stating: “We do not allow anonymous reviews today and ...
by Jamie Pitman
Announced by Google just over a month ago, but finally launched on June 6 Google My Business Agency Dashboard aims to give agency partners full control over their multi-location clients’ ...
by Jamie Pitman
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 ...
by Susan Guinto
The holiday spirit should never be kept to ourselves. It can only be fully experienced when it’s given. After a successful gift-giving event in Pinatilan, Valencia City, Philippines in 2016, ...
by Jamie Pitman
Research published this week in BrightLocal’s annual Local Consumer Review Survey report shows that 79% of US consumers believe they’ve read a fake review in the last year, but 84% admit that ...
by Jamie Pitman
On Wednesday, September 27th, we gathered some of the brightest minds in local SEO to answer your burning questions about Google My Business. We had such a tremendous response that ...