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Do you want to start the new year off right with a successful local SEO campaign in 2015? This new year guide by Casey Meraz will help you to understand the common issues businesses will face and how to jump start your campaign.
Big news for local search marketers: Moz Analytics now gives you the ability to track local rankings by adding locations to the tracked keywords in your rankings reports.
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Six top local SEOs share their Pigeon survival tips, and I've added a Pigeon-proofing checklist for your perusal!
Event marketing can be incredibly beneficial to your business, but reaping those benefits requires careful planning and preparation. From meetups to conferences and more, this post walks you through everything you need to know (including the SEO!) to throw a truly effective event.
In the month between June 28th and July 28th, Google made four major changes: (1) dropping authorship photos, (2) doubling In-depth, (3) removing many video snippets, and (4) the "Pigeon" update.
Go beyond NAP with Greg Gifford's 7 site elements for local SEO plus an easy citation workflow that gets you on the map.
Cleaning up your citations is not as easy as waving a magic wand or blinking while wearing your Google Glass. Read on to find out how to audit your citations and clean up your local listings!
Somewhat inspired by a Pete Wailes YouMoz post from many years ago, I set out last week to explore Google Maps with a fresh set of eyes and an open mind to see what I could discover about how it renders local business results. Read on, for what I think I found.
With the right types of landing pages, you can dramatically increase your local visibility. These helpful guidelines and tips will help you ensure proper implementation for your specific business model.
We designed Moz Local to be the most efficient option for location management, with an easy-to-use interface and an affordable price point. In a nutshell, the product allows you to upload a spreadsheet of all of your locations, which we then standardize and distribute to all five major U.S. data aggregators and three important local directories.
It's easy to customize the geolocation settings -- once or twice. However, these steps can be long and fastidious for results that might be unreliable, mainly if our prime concern is to collect data for filtering, comparing and verifying rankings based on the user's geographic location or when providing clients with direct links to different versions of SERPs from city based location.
But do Google Business Photos help with local search rankings? Google's been mum, and I haven't been able to find any research on the matter. So I decided to test if there was a correlation between adoption of Google Business Photos and local search rankings.