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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

Study Proves Listing Management Is Extremely Relevant
Last week we looked at the big news that Google My Business has been rebranded as Google Business Profile. We shared exactly how to make

A Case Study Into EAT and Google My Business
If you have been following our blog for the last several months, I have taken you into a deep dive into Google EAT as it

How to Apply Google EAT to a Google My Business Listing [#Infographic]
Hopefully, you have heard of Google EAT by now, but you may be wondering just how to effectively apply it to a Google My Business

Five Local SEO Myths That Are Causing Harm to Local Businesses
When it comes to local SEO, there are many myths and half-truths that people like to repeat – or things that were true once upon a time

The 411 on Using Google My Business Insights to Increase Local Search Traffic
Google My Business is one of the more important ways to ensure that a local business gets found online. Today, we are going to look

Getting the Gist of Plus Codes on Google Maps
What’s a Plus Code? I’m not referring to Google+, which has died on the vine. If you haven’t heard of Plus Codes, don’t worry, you’re

How Serving the “Me” Generation in Real Time Is a Win for Local Businesses
It’s no secret that local businesses rely heavily on the online world – or if they don’t already, they should. How else could they capitalize

The Voice Search Generation Is Changing Local Search Optimization
Voice search is now a reality – it’s pretty much taking over without a care in the world. I’ve been hinting at this for several years

Franchises Need Local Listing Management, Too – Here’s Why
Franchises, more than many other kinds of businesses, need to be on top of their local presence online. Between managing dozens or even hundreds of

What Happens When Online Impacts Life Offline: The Big Takeaways From the 2018 Internet Trends Report
It’s that time of year again! The Advice Local Team and the #QueenofLocalSEO have reviewed the 2018 Internet Trends Report to find the most impressive

Making Local Search Trends Simple in 2018 Infographic
As you know, I’m passionate about local search and making it as simple as possible. I even have an entire content series called “Local Search




