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How To Optimise Site Speed by Choosing the Best Themes and Pluginshttps://www.bowlerhat.co.uk/optimise-site-speed-choosing-best-themes-pluginsBy Andrew Hall on Apr 06, 2018 05:00 am If you own a WordPress website, you’ll likely be aware of the concept of themes and plugins. Themes and plugins are some of the core functionalities of WordPress and are required if you don’t want to use the simplistic default appearance. Themes exist to give you more customisation to your website and so that your website looks unique. There are plenty of themes available – some free and some premium – so you may find yourself spending a very long amount of time trying to find the perfect theme. One consideration that is often missed is how fast the theme is....The post How To Optimise Site Speed by Choosing the Best Themes and Plugins appeared first on Bowler Hat.Read it! »Google My Business Now Lets You Specify a List of Serviceshttp://www.localvisibilitysystem.com/2018/04/05/google-my-business-now-lets-you-specify-a-list-of-services/By Phil on Apr 05, 2018 04:43 pm This is the first I’ve seen of the “Services” area in Google My Business. (Update 4/6/18: A few people saw this first a few days ago (h/t Nyagoslav Zhekov), but the rollout seems to have been tiny until now.) The input is pretty structured, as you can see. Only the “name” field appears to be required.  […]Read it! »The Expert’s Guide to Local SEO Updates – March 2018https://localu.org/blog/the-experts-guide-to-local-seo-updates-march-2018/By Carrie Hill on Apr 05, 2018 11:18 am It's that time again, Joy has updated The Expert's Guide to Local SEO and it has reached a whopping 249 pages this month!  This was a jam-packed month of updates, so make sure you review the list below and get your copy ASAP, because you're missing out on some cutting edge Local SEO content from […]The post The Expert’s Guide to Local SEO Updates – March 2018 appeared first on Local University.Read it! »  10 More Local Search Posts You May Have MissedMike B Around the InternetHow Should You Ask for Online Reviews? The Pros and Cons of Each ApproachVideo Deep Dive: Interview with Cindy Krum – Is Mobile First Indexing Really Entity First Indexing?Google’s Love/Hate Relationship With Being HumanGoogle local knowledge panel profile images are not loading in searchReputation Builder New Feature Releases & Tool UpdatesFake Reviews? Negative Reputation Mgt? Google Once Again Caught Flat Footed in the Review SpaceVideo: Last Week in Local April 2, 2018Hacked Site Manual Action Report from Google? Try Bing To Find ItGoogle Posts Testing Video as a Media Type