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Video Deep Dive: Scoring Google as Your New Home page – an agency viewhttps://localu.org/2018/10/10/video-deep-dive-scoring-google-as-your-new-home-page-an-agency-view/By Mike Blumenthal on Oct 10, 2018 01:45 am This is our Deep Dive Into Local from October 8, 2018. 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 […]The post Video Deep Dive: Scoring Google as Your New Home page – an agency view appeared first on Local University.Read it! »Google Reduced Post Visibility but Now Also Showing Them in Google Maps.http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UnderstandingGoogleMapsYahooLocalSearch/~3/IbKyrGehYr0/By Mike Blumenthal on Oct 09, 2018 01:54 pm TLDR; Google has reduced the visibility of posts in both mobile and desktop search while simultaneously increasing their reach by now showing them (at least some of the time) in Google Maps. At the end of September, Google upended the visibility of Posts on both the desktop and mobile. On the desktop posts have been … Continue reading Google Reduced Post Visibility but Now Also Showing Them in Google Maps. →     Read it! »Google Rolling Out Assistant Duplex Test to Four Cities This Monthhttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/UnderstandingGoogleMapsYahooLocalSearch/~3/0SIGw2obfMo/By Mike Blumenthal on Oct 09, 2018 12:43 pm At Google I/O a preview of Google’s Assistant Duplex, Google’s AI based human sounding  digital assistant that can auto create reservations, set off a maelstrom of both interest and criticism. The Announcement from the Google My Business Forum Hey everyone! At our annual conference Google I/O, we showed a preview of a new feature in … Continue reading Google Rolling Out Assistant Duplex Test to Four Cities This Month →     Read it! »  10 More Local Search Posts You May Have MissedLocal Rank Tracking For Law FirmsReality Check: Adapting to Google’s Ever-Growing Control of the Search ExperienceGoogle+ Autopsy for People Who Do Local SEO: What to Know and What to DoSEO Smoke Tests for Dynamic RenderingVideo: Last Week in Local October 8th, 2018The Local Lowdown from Ignitor Digital – Oct. 5Google My Business Launches a Migration Tool for the Agency DashboardWhat’s Up with the Local Search Results…. Who the f knows?Updates to The Expert’s Guide to Local SEO – September 2018Video Deep Dive: Online Reputation Management