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How to Win Patients through Transparencyhttp://www.simpartners.com/win-patients-through-transparency/By Julie Piatek on May 02, 2016 03:31 pm Transparency is a popular topic in healthcare because of changing patient behavior. Patients are becoming more like consumers in their process of choosing a healthcare provider. And one of the ways healthcare systems can be more responsive to consumer-savvy patients is to be more transparent. On Thursday, April 28, SIM Partners and Binary Fountain co-delivered […]Posted by Julie Piatek at How to Win Patients through Transparency. Visit SIM Partners for more great information!Read it! »How to Use Aggregate Review Schema to Get Stars in the Search Results for Local Businesseshttp://www.whitespark.ca/blog/post/83-how-to-use-aggregate-review-schema-to-get-stars-in-the-serpsBy Anonymous on May 02, 2016 12:10 pm Have you ever envied these review sites with the nice yellow stars in the search results, like Yelp, Angie’s List, HomeAdvisor and others? What if I could explain you how YOU can get these yellow stars for pages from YOUR site quite easily?In this post, I’m going to show how you can create similar search results for your site, like we created for a LocalSpark client of ours, Yonkers Avenue Dental:And of course we also implemented it for our own site:Have I gotten your attention? Then keep on reading and within 10 to 15 minutes from now you will be...Read it! »How to See the Address on a Hidden SAB Listinghttp://feedproxy.google.com/~r/GooglePlacesExpertJoyHawkinsLocalSeo/~3/F7vqMQ60W48/By Joy Hawkins on May 02, 2016 02:14 am Article updated May 2, 2016 to include the second way.  Huge thanks to Dino Basaldella at SEO West for the tip. I’ve often heard business owners concerned about their address being listed on Google and Google likes to claim that it’s private when you select to hide your address. Method 1 (Easiest): Pull up the listing […]The post How to See the Address on a Hidden SAB Listing appeared first on Google My Business (GMB) Expert | Local SEO Tips.Read it! »  10 More Local Search Posts You May Have MissedGoogle Maps now with keyboard-based navigation controlsAss Backwards Link BuildingGoogle Adds Neighborhood Info to Knowledge PanelThe Annual Print Yellow Pages Page Count And LemonadeFacebook and Bots Create New Experiences for BrandsVideo Deep Dive: The New Facebook Messenger Platform; A CRM for Local Business?Google testing a slimmed-down version of the local boxThe 9 Most Common Local SEO MythsTop 9 Reasons Why Google Suspends Local ListingsService for a Price: Most Brands Take a Shortsighted Approach to Customer Care