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See You Next Week At LocalU Advanced in Williamsburghttp://www.localseoguide.com/see-you-next-week-at-localu-advanced-in-williamsburg/By Andrew Shotland on Feb 22, 2016 01:39 pm Hey gang, If you want to go deep on local search strategy with a Colonial tinge, you can do no better than the LocalU Advanced in Williamsburg, VA on March 5th. The LocalU’ers were kind enough to invite me out to talk about all the wacky stuff we have been doing with Apple’s new Spotlight […]The post See You Next Week At LocalU Advanced in Williamsburg appeared first on Local SEO Guide.Read it! »Video Deep Dive: What Triggers Local Packs & Can Penguin Impact Local?http://localu.org/blog/penguin-local/By Mike Blumenthal on Feb 22, 2016 01:13 pm This is installment of our Deep Dive Into Local series for 2015 took for ever to make it out of production and into the world. For the week ending Monday, December 11th, Mary Bowling and Mike Blumenthal shared their thoughts about the previous week in local. In this discussion, we look at what triggers local [...]The post Video Deep Dive: What Triggers Local Packs & Can Penguin Impact Local? appeared first on Local University.Read it! »Google My Business Categories By Countryhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UnderstandingGoogleMapsYahooLocalSearch/~3/pR-2iaj9-Fw/By Mike Blumenthal on Feb 22, 2016 12:55 pm With the release of V2 of the Google My Business API, Google simultaneously released categories for each of the 135 countries currently supported by the GMB. I noted it at the time but it was lost in the article but I wanted to be sure that folks so these categories and downloaded them if they needed … Continue reading Google My Business Categories By Country →Related posts:Categories in the new Places for Business Dashboard Canadian Categories from the New Dashboard Now Added to Google Category Tool Google Category Tool Updated To Include new Places for Business Dashboard Categories      Read it! »Breaking Down Location Data Managementhttp://www.simpartners.com/breaking-down-location-data-management/By Gib Olander on Feb 22, 2016 12:24 pm Image Credit: Marketing Land  Data syndication, listing management, and location data management — they are all elements of a local marketing strategy, but which is right for your brand? In the age of the mobile consumer, brands must harness the power of their location data to be visible in the “near me” moments where and […]Posted by Gib Olander at Breaking Down Location Data Management. Visit SIM Partners for more great information!Read it! »Get Your Local On At SMX West & Local Search Workshop In San Josehttp://feeds.searchengineland.com/~r/channel-local/~3/QzfR4_8ojdA/243021-243021By Greg Sterling on Feb 22, 2016 01:32 am Join the pre-conference workshop for a broader and deeper dive into local. The post Get Your Local On At SMX West & Local Search Workshop In San Jose appeared first on Search Engine Land.Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.Read it! »  10 More Local Search Posts You May Have MissedMozcon Local 2016 - Citation InvestigationVisualizing Google My BusinessHow to Find Opportunities for Local Link BuildingGoogle Makes MyMaps App Improvements But Doesn’t Quite Make It ThereSucceeding with Location Data: Advice from 10 Marketing ExpertsA 10-Year JourneyNew Report on SMB Churn You’re Probably Not Going to Agree WithGoogle MyBusiness Now Surfacing Web Verify OptionFranchise SEO: For Masochists OnlyHow I Used Google Search Console Keyword Data To Increase Traffic 167%