local search
How to optimize your Google My Business listing
A Google My Business profile is an essential tool for local SEO and helps to cement the online presence outside of a website. Here we give you an update on how to optimize your listing.
Six mistakes emerging brands make that affect their SEO
We look at the six common mistakes that emerging brands are especially prone to make and can negatively impact their search engine performance.
Rise in voice search for local businesses brings new opportunities and challenges
Voice search is growing exponentially, and when something becomes this prominent it behoves the major search engines to make changes to the ways they work to make these experiences more fluid and enjoyable for the end user. Jamie Pitman reviews consumers' current use of voice search with regard to local search and how you can optimize for future growth
Six steps to improving your local search strategy
With local search proven to be one of the hottest SEO trends of 2017, it is projected to maintain its standing among make-or-break optimization factors in 2018. The competition between online and brick-and-mortar stores is heating up, and local search optimization can become a decisive factor in how a site ranks locally and, consequently, in how much traffic and clients it drives from local, on-the-go searches.
How creating relevant experiences can boost your clicks on local search ads
We all know by now that mobile has had a tremendous impact on our lives as consumers and as marketers. What we are still getting our collective heads around is what this change means for us as marketers.
How to get started with local SEO
Google suggests that 80% users conduct online searches for local businesses, while 50% of users who do a local search on mobile for a business visit its store within a day. Yet businesses continue to miss the opportunities that local SEO provides. If this is you, here's how to get started with local SEO.
How to make sure your local search marketing is up to scratch
For local businesses, having a strong presence in the local search results is fundamental to those all-important conversions. And when users are searching for a local term, they are far more likely to be looking for a service or product. Hence why the conversions on local search tend to be higher, and why you need to ensure that your local search engine marketing is up to scratch.
Google’s constantly evolving search experience – and how it changes the game for local SEO
The importance of local SEO cannot be understated when you consider the dominance of mobile and the sky-high user expectations of being shown the most relevant results - and Google clearly recognizes this. Here's how recent Google innovations like Jobs by Google, Allo and Google Reserve are changing local search.
Taming the local search beast in a post-Possum and Fred world
Two of Google's recent algorithm updates, Possum and Fred, have had a significant impact on local search for various reasons. How can businesses optimize for local search in the wake of these updates?
How to optimize Google My Business listings for multi-location businesses
Being listed on Google My Business (GMB) is an essential part of any local SEO strategy. But how can businesses with multiple locations make sure they aren’t penalized in search rankings?
