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Google Showing AMP Carousels for Local Review Sites

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By Jennifer Slegg on Feb 22, 2017 12:10 pm

It appears that Google is now showing AMP carousels for local review sites in the Google search results.  The carousel can appear as the first organic search result, following the local map pack. Here is what it looks like: This particular carousel seems to have AMP only results.  By comparison, here is the same carousel […]

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5 Tactics for Better Legal Practice Area Pages

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By Dillon Brickhouse on Feb 22, 2017 12:00 pm

Is it your ultimate goal to rank high in Google for search queries containing [your practice area + your city/state]? Of course it is! And I sincerely hope you’ve already reached that milestone. What you’re probably missing, however, is how to make the content on your practice area pages relevant and useful for users, and - Read More

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Video Deep Dive: Getting review rich snippets and the benefit of rich snippets on single location websites

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By Mike Blumenthal on Feb 22, 2017 11:11 am

Deep Dive Into Local series from Feb 6, 2017. In our Deep Dive series, we take a closer look at one thing in local that caught our attention and deserves a longer discussion. If you have a special topic you would like us to discuss for the Deep Dive in Local, please reach out to [...]

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