Google is testing a new button for the Local Service Ads to “message multiple businesses” instead of just messaging one business at a time. We saw something like this before, but it only showed up after you messaged the first business. This was spotted by Matt Casady who posted some screenshots on X – where … Read more
A bunch of local SEOs are buzzing about a possible new local SEO Google ranking factor and are looking to confirm it. Darren Shaw posted on X that while setting the service area historically had no influence on your Google local rankings, that may now have changed. Darren wrote, “Local SEOs have always known that … Read more
In our Ultimate Guide to Store Locators, we talked about how adding a basic set of State > City > Location internal links to search-only store locators can improve SEO performance for the Location Pages. A search-only locator page usually includes a store locator map and/or store finder that searches a number of locations to … Read more
Local rank trackers automate the process of tracking local search engine rankings. Allowing you to save time while getting more profound insights. For example, Stratedia, a marketing agency, improved its clients’ results after investing in Semrush Local, a suite of local SEO tools. This enabled Stratedia to strengthen its offerings, from listing management to improving … Read more
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What Is Local On-Page SEO? Local on-page SEO means optimizing your webpages to improve your organic (unpaid) local search rankings and get more website traffic—and foot traffic if you have one or more physical locations. It’s part of a broader process known as local SEO. Which involves tactics to boost your entire site’s local traffic … Read more
Google has updated its Local Services Ads help document on ad rankings to remove the line around “proximity to potential customers’ locations” is a ranking factor for those ads. Ginny Marvin, the Google Ads Liaison, said the document was updated but there was no recent or “sudden change to ranking considerations” to LSA rankings or … Read more
Google can show the owner of the business in the local panels in the Google search results. I suspect this is not new but I don’t believe I’ve seen this before, where Google will add an “owner” attribute to the local panel. I spotted this via Anthony Higman, who posted this on X – I … Read more
Local grid rankings reports have been a great local SEO tool for a while. They can give you a sense of how a business ranks across various areas of a city, county, etc. Here’s an example of BrightLocal’s grid rank report:We found these reports so useful, we built our own uglier version in Looker Studio … Read more
Google has updated the page where you view, reply and report reviews for your Google Business Profile listing. Joy Hawkins spotted the change and she says it seems to be live, personally, I think I still see the old version. Joy shared this screenshot of this updated reviews listing page on X and said, “Seeing … Read more
Google Search seems to be testing showing only local listings from Google Business Profiles for many “near me” types of queries. So when you search for [dentist near me] or [indian food near me] and so on, you only get local listings and no web search results. I personally cannot replicate this but I had … Read more
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