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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

What’s Trending This Year? An Overview of The 2016 Internet Trends Report
Welcome to the future, where we’re already considering how to market to Gen Z’s grandchildren. OK, maybe that’s taking it a little too far, but

Search Engine Optimization Part 2: Fighting the Good Fight
In part 1 of this article, we started down the SEO 101 rabbit hole with stats revealing the power of well-implemented local SEO, a brief overview

Search Engine Optimization Part 1: What NOT to Do
All right people, it’s 2016 and no one should have to prove the value of adding search engine optimization (SEO) and local SEO to your digital

Reviewing The Stats: The What, When & How of Consumer Search
Having a powerful online presence is critical to success. The overwhelming majority of consumers turn to the Web before visiting a local business for the first time,

Instilling Trust: Advice Local’s New Trusted Local Business Seal
Being CEO has its perks, one of those is sharing fun and exciting news with Advice Local stakeholders, clients and friends. But first, I need

Navigating Omni-Channel Marketing for Local Businesses
Thanks to the adoption of mobile and its continuing increase in usage, digital marketing exists in an accelerated state of constant evolution. Every few years a

Bringing Down the Mobile Curtain: Local Presence for Mobile Search
In this ever-connected society, all businesses and brands must focus in on a local and mobile-centric approach to marketing. Competition is stiff and making it

The 10 Most Important Local SEO Audit Tips
I live and breathe local SEO. I want each and every business on the internet to succeed and increase its search engine rankings. One way a business can

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




