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Local Search and Micro-Moments: Making Magic in the Moment
Mobile is one of the greatest disruptions in digital marketing, but I’m not focusing on mobile today. Instead let’s explore one of its great side
Amazon’s St. Patrick’s Day Cookie Cutter Marketing Gimmick? 5 Takeaways for Brands
So I was surfing Facebook just like I do every day and what did I run across? An Amazon social media post advertising a St.

Local Search Made Easy: Enhancing a Business’s Online Presence with Social Media
There is often debate on whether or not social media contributes to search engine ranking and local search efforts. Each time an authoritative source studies

Local Search Made Easy: Websites that Work
You’ve put in so much hard work to make sure the businesses you represent show up in local search results, now you want to make

Marketing for Consumer Micro-Moments in a Mobile-First World
Google is known for changing everything. Originally it was the name of a search engine, a simple noun. Now it’s a verb and a way

Local Search Made Easy: Reputation Management and Reviews
How’s business? After all, the reason technologies like Advice Local exist, and the reason we provide this blog as a resource is for you to

Local Search Made Easy: Get Listed, Get Optimized and Get Found
You’re well on our way to making sense of the great big world of local SEO. Not to knock the technical aspects of SEO, as

Local Search Made Easy: 5 Must-Haves for Local Success
Welcome back! We’ve been on a journey back to the basics of search engine optimization (SEO). It’s always good to reinforce a solid foundation so we

The Power of Yelp’s Questions & Answers Feature for Businesses
Have you checked out Yelp’s new Questions & Answers feature yet? This feature enables the Yelp community to ask and answer specific questions about a business. Each

What a Local Citation Is and Why It Matters
When it comes to marketing a local business online, local citations play an important role in improving SEO and boosting visibility in local search results. This

Can Local Businesses Really Rank with RankBrain?
RankBrain has been around for awhile now. Has it helped or hurt your clients’ rankings? This machine-learning algorithm known as RankBrain was developed by Google to

Mobile Stats Reveal Precisely Where Business Can Meet Consumer Needs
Businesses that want to capitalize on mobile marketing should think about when their customers are most likely to be online, how mobile impacts purchasing decisions, and how

The Top Emerging Mobile Design Trends for 2017
In our mobile-driven economy, the importance of maintaining a consistent, up-to-date mobile presence cannot be overstated. After all, 82% of consumers use their smartphones to access

Measurable, Mobile Micro-Moments Reveal Path To Success
Mobile shoppers make up an enormous percentage of all consumers today, first outpacing desktop users in 2014 according to Comscore. Today this continues to grow at an

Google Shakes Things Up: Testing Product Ads in Mobile Search Results
It seems Google is testing a new layout for mobile search results again. This time placing product ads for local inventory at the top of

How to Future-Proof an SEO Strategy Against Google Algorithm Updates
Search engines like Google have one main job: to serve up relevant search results. In order to keep up with the latest technology (like smartphones)




