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Some of your local visibility struggles are caused by Google, some are your competitors’ handiwork, and some are due to you or your crew.  Much of the time, that last category of mistake is easy to avoid by taking a...

One of the most important aspects of increasing your conversion rate is showing customers that you have high ratings and good reviews. Many online stores know this and, therefore, show ratings and reviews on its product pages. But, potential customers...

Conference recaps! They’re really for the people who went to the conference, aren’t they? Hopefully this will be a good substitute for those who didn’t make it, and will be a good refresher for people who did! I attended BrightonSEO for the...

We’re back again, with even more great news from our Diversity fund 2021 recipients! In this post, we have updates from Mary Job, Abel Lifaefi Mbula, and David Towoju. They’ve all been hard at work on their projects, helping WordPress...

A longstanding gripe of business owners, local SEOs, and others is that Google Business Profile (AKA GMB) pages linger around on the map even after they’re marked as “permanently closed.”  Most often it’ll be a page you once created or...

In the past couple of years, I’ve heard many local SEOs and a few hands-on business owners make a comment to the effect of, “Google Maps doesn’t approve anti-spam edits anymore.”  There’s more than grain of truth to that. Google...

Often I’m asked a question like, “How can I rank within a 40-mile radius of my business for ?”  Or maybe it’s a 10-mile radius, or a 70-mile one, or a ring of suburbs.  The point is there’s a specific...