Local Posts You May Have Missed

Local Posts You May Have Missed for 09/17/2015

September 17, 2015

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Hey, here are the latest local search posts

 

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Looking to level up your local marketing and SEO skills? Join us for MozCon Local, Thursday and Friday, February 18-19, 2016 in Seattle. With both an all-day conference and a half-day workshop, you'll hear from top local speakers on topics critical to local marketing.

When it comes to local listings accuracy, Canada's top retailers are underperforming. A solid local SEO strategy requires superior depth, visibility, reach, and precision.

Are you a local business owner? Explore the hows and whys of submitting your business to local business directories in order to boost your local search visibility on Google.

There’s been a ton of coverage on Mobilegeddon, the scramble to mobilize and post-Mobilegeddon ranking experience. Still only a minority of SMBs have mobile sites and most of those mobile sites will probably, to use the vernacular, suck. There must be a lot of bad advice and bad SMB mobile site development out there. I’ll […]

Changes can surprise the SEO world (looking at you, phantom Google updates), and sometimes, changes can be seen a mile away. This is when everyone should look at Yahoo and their local listings. Their importance is diminishing every day, and eventually they will be a thing of the past, like ...

Please join us for a live Hangout on Facebook Marketing for Local Business on Friday September 25 at 11 am Eastern Time. The discussion will be hosted by Mike Blumenthal and the panelists will be Mike Ramsey, Matt Siltala, Will Scott and David Mihm. If you're puzzled by the many recent changes to Facebook as [...]

To generate offline sales during the holiday season, retailers need to court the mobile shopper, according to a new SIM Partners report. Mobile shoppers influenced holiday sales online and offline in 2014, and in 2015, shoppers empowered with smartphones will dominate holiday shopping. A July 2015 survey from marketing technology provider Signal reports that 70 […]

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Earlier today Google announced an educational and legal attack on deceptive robo calling that has and continues to run rampant in the local space. Google mentioned in their blog today that they had filed a lawsuit. I have just read through the filing and it reads like one of my rants against this sort of …

Google recently shook up the local results in its SERPs, killing the local 7-packs in favor of a 3-pack that resembles the mobile experience. This post tells you everything you need to know about the change and what it means for your local marketing.

Update: Details of Google’s Robo Calling Lawsuit Against Local Lighthouse are now available. Apparently Google is not going to take the abuse from robo callers any more. Today Google is publicly starting to educate the public about rob caller’s abuses in Google’s name AND has apparently initiated its first law suit against a search marketing …

Scott Hendison of Search Commander in Portland, reported some strange goings on with Google My Business today for clients that were using location extensions in Adwords – a consolidated interface using the current bulk upload interface that presented both the local listing and the AdWords account. From Scott’s post: TWO of three clients that I’ve …