Open Sourcing 2017 Local SEO Ranking Factors Data
I just got back from #TechSEOBoost and spent a lot of time engaged in amazing conversations about data analysis, math and very importantly sharing data. So, after thinking about it, I decided I’m going to open source the data we used for the 2017 Local SEO Ranking Factors. This data is pretty interesting, and honestly […]
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Don’t Ever Trust Google With Your Life
So for those of you don’t know, I have a 3-year-old daughter (her name is Harper). Here is her hand: When she was an even littler girl then she is now, she got pink eye. Bekah and I spent a bunch of time googling and calling around doctors offices and urgent cares trying to find […]
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Who Is Next In Local Listings Management?
For those that missed the news this morning, I couldn’t be more excited to see @SIMPartners join the @Reputation_Com family! https://t.co/c1pqdtD9uy — Adam Dorfman (@phixed) February 28, 2018 While I did not expect Reputation.com to be the suitor, it is not surprising to see it embrace SIMPartners. Reputation.com has grown from a service that took […]
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Moz Local Review 2017 – Does It Work?
Last year, Local SEO Guide paid Moz Local about $17,000. Our primary goal was to use it as a one-stop shop to push some of our clients’ info to the main data listings aggregators. While the service worked for our needs, it was not without its share of hiccups. Our contract is up for renewal […]
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Correlation, Causation & Local SEO
Today at State of Search Yext’s Christian Ward mentioned this result from “the world’s largest correlation engine”. Kind of says it all: BTW super-impressed with this year’s State of Search. It always was a great conference but it has grown up big time. Kudos to DFWSEM.
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More on HTTPS & Local Citations & 301 Redirects
My SEL post, When Going HTTPS Don’t Forget About Local Citations, spurred a minor tempest in a tweetstorm, when reader asked Googler’s John Mueller and Gary Ilyes for their thoughts. As you can see below John emphasized that “you don’t lose PR with 301s”: John was likely referencing this section of my post: Let’s say you […]
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Apple Maps Now Publishing Listings Taken Directly From Businesses
It’s Apple Maps news week here at LSG. Apple now appears to be publishing multi-location business listings taken directly from the businesses. Case in point, several electronic vehicle charging station chains have popped up on Apple Maps with a “provided by” notice on their profiles. As you can see from the screenshots in this post, […]
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Apple Maps Adds 4 New Business Listings Partners
Apple Maps has updated its Attributions page again with four new business listings partners, 3 US-based location data management/marketing companies and a Swiss Yellow Pages company: Location3 MomentFeed SIM Partners Swisscom Directories Previously Location3 and SIM Partners were accidentally “announced” as partners almost two years ago. At that point we had heard that these partners […]
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Be True to Your Source of Truth
Anybody that works with Local SEO at scale, and even those that don’t, has experienced the pain of having to wrangle True pieces of NAP information for dozens, if not hundreds or thousands, of locations. Clients usually hate checking this, and trust me, I get it. It’s really hard to be able to break data discrepancies […]
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Keyword Plannergeddon
It’s been nice knowing you all, but SEO is officially over, dead and gone. As you very likely know $GOOG has made a bunch of changes that impact the Keyword Planner (and by default Local SEO.) First they started combining keywords and showing grouped monthly search volumes. Then they started showing ranges for keywords unless […]
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The Future of Local SERPs
Per my previous post, Are You Doing Local Answers SEO?, we have noticed these types of results are becoming more common for queries that have local intent: This is in line with the increasing presence of Knowledge Graph results over the past year. We believe that Google is starting to view many local queries as […]
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Why Local Rank Trackers Suck
I am publishing part of this post that just went live on SearchEngineLand because: The original title was “Why Local Rank Trackers Suck”. I get why SEL rewrote it as “Why Local Rank Trackers Fail” – it’s a family site after all – but I think you’ll agree “Suck” is much more accurate. The editors […]
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Apple Maps’ Business Data Quality Strategy
Last week, when we uncovered that Apple Maps had cut deals with at least ten new companies (e.g. Yext, Location3, Yodle, etc.) to provide business listings data, I got a few emails asking what the big deal was. Here’s what I see is going on: Apple has come to realize that organizing the world’s local […]
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Apple Maps Rejects Home-Based Businesses
It’s Apple Maps week over here. Just wanted to point you over to my latest post on AMM, Apple Maps Is Not Intended To Be A General Business Directory, my rant on why I think Apple Maps should allow home-based businesses to be listed. Kind of ironic given this from the U.S. Small Business Administration: […]
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Local Directories May Survive Google’s New Local Knowledge Pack
Last week, Google started to switch out its local Carousel results for a new set of mobilish-type pack results that appear to rely heavily on its local Knowledge Panels, so let’s call it a Knowledge Pack, or “K-Pack”, for the purposes of this post. In his seminal post Some Thoughts On The New Pak Results […]
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Why Fixing Bad N.A.P. Data Issues Sucks
Nyagoslav (think Cher, Michael, Brittany, etc.) gets all OCD on my recent post where I used our NAP Hunter extension to surface some bogus N.A.P. data issues. He really peels back the rotten onion: “The NPI registry is one of the most trustworthy data sources in the medical industry, so the chances that this was […]
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Everything You Wanted To Know About Duplicate Business Listings…
…but not really. I mean who really wants to understand how duplicate business listings are created and how the problem can be solved? It’s not exactly cocktail party conversation. But if your business is affected by them, like every business that relies on local search traffic is, perhaps you might want to take a few […]
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How To Do a Local Infographic Right Airbnb Style
Airbnb just released a beautiful interactive infographic on the local economic impact the company has had on nine cities. If you are considering using content to attract links, for both national and local SEO, this would be a good piece to study. The design is beautiful, but the interaction and “scrollability” is what sets this […]
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The Moz Local 1.0 Review
A year and a half after Moz’s acquisition of GetListed, David Mihm’s local listings baby has finally burst out of the womb. Business listings management is one of the trickiest aspects of local SEO and David has long been focused on trying to simplify the process for SMBs. So let’s see what Moz Local can […]
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Cloudy With a Chance of Pending: Google Local Ranking Weather Report
Mike Borgelt over at 51Blocks just released this very cool Local Search Weather ReportThe post Cloudy With a Chance of Pending: Google Local Ranking Weather Report appeared first on Local SEO Guide.