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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

How To Write Meta Descriptions And Why It’s Important
Are you one of the many that think meta descriptions are not important for SEO? It’s time you rethink that. While Google claims it has no

A.I. Meets SEO: Google’s RankBrain Changes Search Again
A.I, or Artificial Intelligence, may still seem like science fiction to you, but it is actually being used more and more to perform processes behind

Feeding Search Engines To Rise in Rankings
Search Engine Optimization or SEO. While many businesses may have an idea of what it is, they may not understand how it works or, at

Will Yahoo’s Partnership With Google Be Their 2nd Coming?
This week Yahoo announced in their Third Quarter 2015 Results Report their new partnership with Google. This partnership allows Yahoo to display Google’s search results

Why Optimizing for Facebook Search is Now Even More Important
The always evolving world of both search and social media has a new development. Facebook has improved the way we can search on their site.

Yahoo! Local Listings Management Change-Up
As you may or may not have heard, Yahoo! is outsourcing their Yahoo! Local Listings management to Yext. As with many mega corporations, or search

Are You Making These Four Simple Local SEO Mistakes?
As a business owner you know how important your online presence is with the vast majority of consumers searching for products and services on the

Move over Google, Yahoo and Bing: The Big Three Is Now the Big Four
When you hear the “Big Three” do you still automatically think about Google, Yahoo and Bing? Well, the fact is that the “Big Three” is




