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Last but not least, we feature seven tips from Andrew Shotland to wrap up our local SEO expert Q&A blog series featuring 56 answers from the top local SEO experts. Q 1: What do you think are going to be the biggest changes in local search within the next year (2018) that small businesses should pay attention to? A 1: I think the biggest change will be an increase in Google Ads where a lot of organic GMB results used to be. So SMBs will need to get better at buying traffic, find additional ways to squeeze organic traffic out of Google and start working new organic channels. Q 2: If you were ..read more

Today we feature Joy Hawkin’s seven answers to seven questions from our exhaustive local SEO expert Q&A featuring 56 answers from some of the top local SEO experts. Check it out below! Q 1: What do you think are going to be the biggest changes in local search within the next year that small businesses should pay attention to? A 1: Google Posts Beta will be huge for SMBs. Q 2: If you were a small, local shop selling baked goods or beverages with limited time to work with your online marketing, what are the top three things you would focus on in order of importance? A 2: Ask custom ..read more

Today we feature Craig Campbell’s seven answers to seven questions from our exhaustive local SEO expert Q&A featuring 56 answers from some of the top local SEO experts. Check it out below! Q 1: What do you think are going to be the biggest changes in local search within the next year (2018) that small businesses should pay attention to?  A 1: It’s hard to predict what changes will be made it is obvious that Google is wanting to show local business hence the map positions having a prominent position and the searches becoming more localized. For local SEO I would always have a process o ..read more

Today we feature Jason Park’s seven answers to seven questions from our exhaustive local SEO expert Q&A featuring 56 answers from some of the top local SEO experts. Check it out! Q 1: What do you think are going to be the biggest changes in local search within the next year that small businesses should pay attention to? A 1: Local backlinks. This isn’t new I just think more emphasis needs to be put on getting quality, authoritative links in your local market. Q 2: If you were a small, local shop selling baked goods or beverages with limited time to work with your online marketing, what are ..read more

Today we feature Mike Bluementhal’s seven answers to seven questions from our exhaustive local SEO expert Q&A featuring 56 answers from some of the top local SEO experts. Q 1: What do you think are going to be the biggest changes in local search within the next year (2018) that small businesses should pay attention to? A 1: Over the past year or two, Google has been slowly and steadily making their front page the most important page for a business. They are doing this by creating more and more scenarios where the users no longer needs to go to the website to retrieve critical information ..read more

Local SEO is a tough game. One minute you’re ranking number one with your Google My Business listing for your top keyword + city, the next minute, Google changes the number of listings they show in the local pack from seven to three and you’re filtered right out of the Google My Business results. Or, maybe you’ve experienced another scenario, where you’re say, a local office with one physical location. Let’s say Milwaukee for sake of this example, that sells digital printing and direct mail services. But you don’t just sell those services to people in Milwaukee, you also sell them to peop ..read more

Local SEO is a tough game. One minute you’re ranking number one with your Google My Business listing for your top keyword + city, the next minute, Google changes the number of listings they show in the local pack from seven to three and you’re filtered right out of the Google My Business results. Or, maybe you’ve experienced another scenario, where you’re say, a local marketing agency with one physical location. Let’s say Milwaukee for sake of this example, that sells local SEO services. But you don’t just sell those services to people in Milwaukee, you also sell them to people in nearby ..read more

Local SEO is a tough game. One minute you’re ranking number one with your Google My Business listing for your top keyword + city, the next minute, Google changes the number of listings they show in the local pack from seven to three and you’re filtered right out of the Google My Business results. Or, maybe you’ve experienced another scenario, where you’re say, a local office with one physical location. Let’s say Milwaukee for sake of this example, that sells small business accounting services. But you don’t just sell those services to people in Milwaukee, you also sell them to people in n ..read more

As an ethical SEO professional, I never advocate buying links. Paid directory listings, however, can be very beneficial depending on the directory. One that I came across recently and I highly recommend checking out is Inc.’s Verified Profile listing where you can list your business with a short description, your site and your logo. This is nice high profile, high authority domain and it gives you a do-follow link – an SEO win! Thought I would share this with my audience since I haven’t shared a lot lately You can check what its all about and set up your profile here. The post Getting a ..read more