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How Business Listings Help Service-Based Businesses
Choosing a service provider often starts with a search for answers. Business listing management helps service-based businesses provide those answers and give prospective customers a

How Business Listings Protect Enterprise Brand Identity
For enterprise and multi-location brands, that first impression won’t always come through their website. Business listing management distributes data across mapping apps, directories and search

How Citations Support Multi-Location Business Visibility
For a single location, managing business listings across directories and search engines requires accuracy and consistency. When that effort scales to enterprise brands, franchises and

Why Businesses Need Control Over Their Citation Data
Most businesses have no idea how many places their information appears online. Without a professional approach to business listing management, key data can move unchecked

Why Consistent Citations Build Trust Before the Click
Most people don’t decide to trust a business the moment they click. What they see in search results, maps and directories—shaped by local listing management—builds

How Citations Influence “Near Me” and Location-Based Results
When someone performs a “near me” or location-based query, search engines have to decide which results are relevant and trustworthy. That trust is built through

How Citations Support Business Discoverability Beyond Google
Most businesses measure their local online visibility by where they rank on Google. But listing management services help agencies and local marketers maintain listings for

How Incomplete Business Data Weakens Local Citations
When agencies and local marketers turn to listing management services, they often do so to resolve inaccurate business data. However, focusing only on errors and

Are All Data Aggregators Created Equal?
Some “experts” might tell you that all data aggregators are the same. After all, a citation is a citation. But is that really the case? Are citations

How to Win More Customers in 2019 With Local Content Marketing
2019 is the year of the local business – we’re certain about that! I study local search day in and day out, and I know

Voice Search Readiness in 2019 and Beyond
2019 is here. While the focus in recent weeks has been predictions on the digital marketing trends that are expected to emerge this year, I

How to Get More Click-Through and Win With Zero-Click Searches
It’s time to talk zero-click searches and their prominence, especially in mobile searching. If you think you have no idea what a “zero-click” search is,

Voice Search is the New Norm?! There’s No Time for Skepticism.
How many of you have heard countless radio, television and print advertisements for voice search-enabled devices this holiday season? I have, and it’s not at

Citation Cleanup in a Nutshell – It’s Time to Clean Up That Dirty Data
When it comes to bad data or dirty data, just the sight of it gets my goat! It’s my mission – and my company’s –

Using Mobile and Online Coupons to Attract Local Customers
We can all remember the days when we cut coupons before going to the grocery store or other retailers. That time seems so long ago

Why Businesses and Brands Need to Monitor Their Google My Business Listing
Businesses and brands of all shapes and sizes must claim, create and monitor their Google My Business listing. It’s about more than the name, address




