A few months ago, I teamed up with Ben Fisher from Steady Demand to test whether Google Posts have any influence on ranking in the local...

Twin Design / Shutterstock.com In May, Google shared details of a beta program for location extensions and store visits tracking for...

According to Mike Blumenthal, Google is now broadly rolling out its simple website creator for small businesses: websites. It first...

Apple has been developing indoor location and mapping for several years. Now the company is finally sharing the fruits of that effort in...

Alexey Boldin / Shutterstock.com This morning, at Google Marketing Next in San Francisco, the company is making a number of ads and...

We all know that Google is constantly launching updates to their products (over 1,600 last year), and some of these changes are well...

Google seems to be making moves to use the quality of small businesses — as determined by user ratings and reviews — as a ranking factor....

Many brands continue to be challenged by location-based search despite its importance to customer engagement and store visits. Consider...

So you want to win in local search this year? Yep, so do millions of small- and medium-sized businesses. And so do all those huge...

Google announced last week that they had recently conducted a study to research the actors behind fake listings on Google Maps. The study...

Any marketer worth their salt, or at least one who has managed to stay awake during Marketing 101, can rattle off a long list of...

Over the last couple of years, Google updates have shown the company’s growing focus on monetizing searches with local intent and...

If you thought you would avoid April Fools’ Day gags and pranks this year because the actual day falls on a Saturday, think again. C’mon...

Here’s a familiar story: a group of locksmiths has filed a class action lawsuit against Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. They claim the...

New businesses need all the help they can get to attract customers, generate revenue and establish themselves to compete with existing...

It’s the end of the month, and that means it’s time for another edition of Greg’s Soapbox! Except this time, it’s not so much me standing...

The conversation about local search is not a new one; marketers have been discussing the importance of targeting customers by location...

Proximity and beacon data platform Unacast has released its Q4 Proximity.Directory report. The document focuses on “smart cities” and how...

In response to the growing popularity of searches with local intent, Google released Local Inventory Ads (LIA) a few years ago as a...

Google has been in and out of the small business (SMB) web creation and hosting business since 2006. Apparently, it’s making a renewed...