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Why Business Listings Are Essential for Local Businesses
We always like to kick off each year with landing a solid foundation for location businesses, and that’s why we want to talk about the
Voice Search Is as Relevant as Ever in 2022 – Are You Making It Count?
With the year in full swing, it’s time to check back in with voice search and see how much it still matters. The Importance of
2021 Local Search Ranking Factors – Applying Them in 2022
We’re switching focus to the 2021 Local Search Ranking Factors report – an industry survey developed by David Mihm originally in 2008. 2021 Local Search
Top 10 New Year’s Resolutions for Digital Marketers
We like to jumpstart the new year with tips to help you, our agency partners, local marketers, and friends achieve their business goals for the
How Much Damage Can a Poorly Optimized Google Business Profile Cause?
We have a horror story to share with you about the dangers of becoming a little too reliant on Google. The Dangers of Bad Google
Google Business Profile Category Issues – Are You Affected?
We’re looking at some problems with the new Google Business Profile (GBP) update and what it could mean for your clients. As a reminder, Google
Using a Store Locator to Attract More Near Me Searches
Over the past several months I’ve been taking you on quite the journey into Google My Business and leveraging EAT to help a business appear
Using Google My Business for Holiday Marketing Campaigns
With the holiday season fast approaching, it’s time to shift gears and focus on creating local marketing campaigns to help your local business clients get
How to Build an Entity-Focused Local SEO Strategy
As you well know, the focus of digital marketing can change rapidly with the whims of algorithm updates and new product launches. While you’re probably
Entity Signals & Local Search: What Listings & Citations Tell Google (and AI)
High-quality, consistent listing management services help businesses remain visible and accessible in consumer search for the AI Age. Alongside keywords, entity signals are the major
Why Listings Management Needs to Include Review Monitoring
Listing management remains one of the important strategies agencies and local marketers use to help their clients increase online visibility. Solutions like our review monitoring
Why Mapping Apps Are the Overlooked Citation Layer
You know the importance of local business citations and how reputable listing management services help agencies to get clients to rank high in search. However,
Citation Errors That Keep Reappearing (And How to Stop Them)
A large part of keeping your agency clients happy comes down to them showing up in maps, search results and generative AI answers, and good
The 2026 Local Search Ranking Factors on Maps, Organic & AI
Agencies, business partners, local marketers and listings management clients, it’s that time again—we have an updated report of local search ranking factors. Each time this
The Evolving Role of Local Citations in Answer Engines
If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times, search and local SEO are changing. Now we talk about AI optimization (AIO) and
How Inconsistent Local Citations Can Damage AI Visibility
As an agency partner or local marketer, you already know the importance of visibility in search, and that listings management services play a big role
