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The Top Reasons to Love Local Citations
If you’ve been providing listing management services to small businesses for any length of time, you surely understand the power of citations. Citations have been

Create a Local SEO Strategy for Your Small Business Clients
As all successful agency owners know, a consistent local SEO strategy is vital for increasing search visibility. At Advice Local, we have long promoted the

What Are the Benefits of Local Listing Management Software?
Anyone familiar with local SEO and marketing will recognize the importance of local listing management. And you probably also know just how time-consuming that claiming,

Using Map Apps to Help Local Businesses Get Found
From the initial research phase to getting directions to the business’ location, consumers are increasingly taking advantage of mapping apps. As a leading provider of

5 New Year’s Tips to Help Agencies Have a Profitable Year
With 2023 officially up and running, we’d like to offer some recommendations on how to ensure a profitable year. From our listing management services to

The Value of Near Me Search Optimization in 2023
In recent years, one of the most common questions in the local marketing space relates to the value of “near me” search optimization. As developers

Five Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Citation Builder
Today, we’re focusing 100% on business listings and more specifically, the questions to ask when hiring a local citation builder. Hiring a local citation builder

Special GBP Edition: Google Business Profile Features You Can’t Get Elsewhere
Today we’d like to discuss the Google Business Profile. The Value of the Google Business Profile Is Undeniable We talk about the Google Business Profile

Using Website Graphics to Boost Your Local Search Ranking
A compelling, well-tagged image can help drive traffic to your local website through an image search (think Google Images). Google ranks local websites based on their usefulness. Being

How to Optimize Multiple Locations for Local SEO
Industry experts agree that local factors have become increasingly important in search engine optimization (SEO).
Google has made it clear that local search is here to stay and you must optimize for local SEO. This is great news for small local businesses that are outranked by bigger companies.
If you own a small business, it can be overwhelming to sift through all the different ways to optimize your local search. If your business has multiple locations, that task is even harder.

What Holiday Shoppers Teach Us About Content Marketing: 3 Big Lessons
All this past month the big business story has been about shopping. Would Black Friday remain black? Is Cyber Monday still a phenomenon? How will

Download Online Marketing eBook for Local Businesses
Small businesses can thrive on their online marketing efforts. By implementing foundational SEO, social media, and email marketing best practices, your website can rise miles

What Exactly Does Transparency Look Like in Business?
Do you know everything that goes on in your business? And I mean everything? And if you don’t, how much will your business suffer as

Write Great Controversial Content – to Debate or Not to Debate
Getting people to hate your content is just as important as getting people to like it, right? Write Great Controversial Content I think so, and

Top Ten Google Glass Myths Explained
Recently I have been using my Google Glasses for everything from traveling with Glass to keeping updated on the top news stories through my Glassware

What It Takes to Be a Damn Good Internet Marketing Entrepreneur
Recently, someone referred to me as a serial entrepreneur. I had to stop and take notice of that comment. Yes, I was CEO of a




