Channel: Local

Restaurant owners can now edit menu listings in Google My Business

Google My Business announced a new update on Thursday that is sure to make many restaurant owners happy. Restaurant owners who are managing their own Google My Business (GMB) listings can now access a new editor to create and edit the menus that may display in their listings in Google mobile search results. The editor […]

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Are you getting credit for all of your organic visits from GMB?

As search engine optimization specialists (SEOs), we all have one goal: to increase organic traffic for our clients. We optimize signals to increase the relevancy of our clients’ (or our own) sites so more people find them and check them out. But what if some of the traffic (or even a lot of it) isn’t

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A key ingredient for successful local search results

Customer loyalty is often overlooked in local search. The thinking is that people are searching for new places to shop or for things they don’t know about already. If they were a regular or loyal customer, they wouldn’t need to search. But that’s not entirely true. Due to the  “Google effect” or digital amnesia, consumers

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Hyperlocal news, Nextdoor competitor or both?

Google is testing a new local service called Bulletin. The company describes it as a “lightweight app for telling a story by capturing photos, video clips and text right from your phone, published straight to the web.” It’s currently only available in Nashville, Tennessee, and Oakland, California. Google envisions this as a way to contribute

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Local search industry optimistic about 2018 — but less likely to hire

The local search landscape is a constantly evolving beast, regularly changing at the whim of Google My Business and, more and more these days, reliant on consumer reviews. As such, the folks working in this niche of the wider SEO industry have had to be quick on their feet to adapt to changes. It’s no

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Google My Business videos not showing up on your local listing? It’s a Google bug

Last Friday, Google launched a feature to upload videos to Google My Business local listings. Google said that videos would be processed and live within 24 hours of being uploaded. That, however, is not the case; there is a bug that is preventing the videos from showing up on the local listings in Google Maps

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Google My Business video uploads now available to business owners

Allyson Wright from the Google My Business team announced today that the video upload feature we saw being tested is now available for business owners in the Google My Business dashboard. Business owners can “view videos added by customers and upload videos about their business for customers to view,” she said. The video maximum length

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Google My Business dashboard showing video upload section for some business owners

Google seems to be testing the ability of business owners to upload videos to their local listings within the Google My Business dashboard. Colan Nielsen posted screen shots of the feature within the dashboard. This is not to be confused with the Local Guides, volunteers who help Google keep map data up to date and

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Google exploring sale of Zagat reviews

According to a report appearing in Reuters, Google’s parent Alphabet is considering a sale of reviews publication Zagat. The company was purchased in September, 2011 for a reported $151 million in the wake of a failed deal to acquire Yelp. At the time Google needed local reviews content to better compete in local search with

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