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300+ Industry Review Sites for 30 Business Sectors – updated October 2019! The benefits of getting online reviews are many. Not only do they help to build trust with potential customers, but they also increase click-through rates from Google My Business. As a bonus, online reviews and ratings can even help a business rank higher on… Read More

Jamie Pitman
October 15th, 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

In our latest edition of Local Legends, we’re excited to present a conversation between Greg Gifford, VP of Search at Wikimotive and BrightLocal CEO, Myles Anderson. Greg visited the BrightLocal UK office just ahead of the Brighton SEO conference to share his thoughts on, well, pretty much everything local! We ended up with a  interview… Read More

Jamie Pitman
October 3rd, 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

It’s no big secret that online reviews help shape consumers’ decisions. A positive online reputation online helps customers trust businesses, converts searches into leads, and boosts local search rankings. In fact, 91% of 18-34-year-olds trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations. Online reviews can make or break a business: 42% of consumers won’t use… Read More

Jason Brown
September 16th, 2019

Research shows that online reviews and recommendations play a critical role in decision making for both consumers and search engines. This is even more true for local businesses, where competition is at its fiercest. Why then, can it be so hard to convince local business marketers to take reputation management seriously enough to invest in… Read More

Rosie Murphy
August 23rd, 2019

Thanks to the dominance of mobile search and our ‘always-on’ consumer mindset, local SEO is today critical to every business in some way. We carry smartphones pretty much every waking moment, so it’s second nature to turn to Google when we’re in need of a local business. Whether that’s an emergency plumber to fix a… Read More

Jamie Pitman
August 21st, 2019

Online reviews for local businesses are more important than ever. They’re highly trusted, ubiquitous for pretty much every industry, and have a huge impact on your business. There are a ton of reasons, forces and even algorithms that make online reviews so important, and should all be taken into account when deciding whether to prioritize… Read More

Jamie Pitman
August 16th, 2019

As marketers, we understand how crucial a positive online reputation is, but, we know it can be a little more difficult to sell the need to your clients. That’s why we’ve created this ultimate list of online review statistics to help you demonstrate to clients and prospects why they need to put their reputation first… Read More

Rosie Murphy
August 15th, 2019

For any local business looking to grow, and any multi-location business looking to solidify reputation across branches, earning reviews from the top review sites is imperative. More and more consumers’ purchase decisions are heavily influenced by business ratings on the best review sites, as proven in our Local Consumer Review Survey. And while there are… Read More

Jamie Pitman
August 8th, 2019