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Google My Business fixes week-long reporting bug with photo insightshttp://feeds.searchengineland.com/~r/channel-local/~3/mZbUgn_z-9s/google-business-fixes-week-long-reporting-bug-photo-insights-281752By Barry Schwartz on Aug 31, 2017 10:17 am Google has finally fixed the Google Insights reports in Google My Business.The post Google My Business fixes week-long reporting bug with photo insights appeared first on Search Engine Land.Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.Read it! »How to Feed the Google My Business Messaging Feature into Your Landlinehttp://www.localvisibilitysystem.com/2017/08/31/how-to-feed-the-google-my-business-messaging-feature-into-your-landline/By Phil on Aug 31, 2017 04:09 am If you enable Google’s new “messaging” feature, customers who pull up your business in Google Maps can contact you via their favorite chat app.  Whether that’s a good thing for your business (or it drives you crazy) is for you to decide – maybe after a test drive. But let’s assume for a minute that […]Read it! »Which Cities & Categories Currently Have Google Home Service Ads & Advanced Verificationhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UnderstandingGoogleMapsYahooLocalSearch/~3/1WNo0ho69VU/By Mike Blumenthal on Aug 30, 2017 05:04 pm Google provided me a comprehensive list of cities and the categories that are currently under the Home Service Ads & Advanced Verification banners in those cities. This program is hard enough to keep track of with it’s many changes and the recent increase in rollout that I thought the list would help you understand more about … Continue reading Which Cities & Categories Currently Have Google Home Service Ads & Advanced Verification →     Read it! »Google local pack tests displaying website mentions matching your queryhttp://feeds.searchengineland.com/~r/channel-local/~3/aqnl8cJjF3A/google-local-pack-tests-displaying-website-mentions-matching-query-281730By Barry Schwartz on Aug 30, 2017 04:43 pm Google local results is aware of the content on the local business website and may even show the matching keyword in the local pack snippets.The post Google local pack tests displaying website mentions matching your query appeared first on Search Engine Land.Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.Read it! »Local SEO Tips for Local Business Structured Data Markuphttp://onlineownership.com/local-seo-tips-for-local-business-structured-data-markup/By Tim Capper on Aug 30, 2017 04:32 pm The post Local SEO Tips for Local Business Structured Data Markup appeared first on Online Ownership.If you are fed up with trying to wrap Microdata html around your pages content then these Local SEO tips for implementing Local Business structured data markup with JSON-LD is for you. I break down Local Business structured data for a selection of Local Business types that can be amended to suit your business type […]The post Local SEO Tips for Local Business Structured Data Markup appeared first on Online Ownership.Read it! »Video Deep Dive: Messaging vs. Posts in Google My Businesshttp://localu.org/blog/video-deep-dive-messaging-vs-posts/By Mike Blumenthal on Aug 30, 2017 12:03 pm Mike Blumenthal & Mary Bowling take a Deep Dive into Google's new Messaging product that allows business to directly interact with their customers This is our Deep Dive Into Local from July 17th, 2017. In our Deep Dive series, we take a closer look at one thing in local that caught our attention and deserves [...]The post Video Deep Dive: Messaging vs. Posts in Google My Business appeared first on Local University.Read it! »  10 More Local Search Posts You May Have MissedGoogle says we don’t need no stinking location modifiers… or do we?Google upgrades flight and hotel search to provide price grid views & moreGoogle Adds New Booking Link to Local Knowledge PanelVideo: Last Week in Local August 28thGoogle Adds AdWords Ads in Local Knowledge Panel in TestGoogle Maps local listings can now have videos uploadedThe Fallacy of Google’s “Micro-Moment” PositioningUpload Video to Google Maps Listings – New Google Local Feature10 Simple Yet Effective Ways to Optimise Your ContentMike B Around the Web