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In your effort to get reviews that grow your cred and your business, it’s easy to get stale.  You ask the same people, in the same way, around the same time, for roughly the same favor.  You leave it alone unless and until there’s a big problem or a big gap in your armor.  Perhaps…

I learned a lot at Pubcon’s 2024 conference in Vegas. You can’t say that about most trade shows. So I decided to share some knowledge on the best AI SEO tools recommended by the pros at the show on LSGSEO blog. And if you’re wondering what’s going on with the two separate sites – at…

There’s a long list of reasons one of your Google Business Profile pages might be riding high on the local map while another is buzzard bait.  My aim in this post is simple: to help you narrow down the list of possible causes, so you can make your weakest location more visible and bountiful.  To…

When you use “suggest an edit” to report a business that’s spamming Google Maps, your standard operating procedure might go something like this: you send in only one report per Google Business Profile per violation, and you wait until Google approves or rejects it before you do anything else.  That’s not bad SOP, and often…

Check Out Our New Site! You may have noticed this big honking new LSGSEO logo in the middle of the homepage. I thought it might merit an explanation. A few years ago, some of the team felt strongly that calling ourselves “Local” SEO Guide made it seem like all we did was Local SEO and…

Are you starting your local SEO work at Customer #0, with few or no connections, few or no resources, and not much certainty as to where to begin?  Working on local SEO for this new business may feel like you just moved to a foreign land with only the clothes on your back.  You may…

Instagram‘s off-shoot app, Threads, is Meta’s answer to Twitter (now rebranded to “X” by Elon Musk). Dubbed a “Twitter Killer,” Threads amassed 100 million users in just five days. Among new Threads users are content creators; many also use Twitter to interact with their followers, build community, and network with other creators and brands. So…

I’m not saying you should do this, but if for whatever reason you need to fudge and fib your way through the video-verification of your Google Business Profile page, it’s not that hard to do.  First tested in 2016, in recent months that verification option has gone from relatively rare to somewhat common to non-optional…