Just Released: BrightLocal Consumer Review Study 2022

Customer reviews are obviously important when potential customers are deciding if they want to do business with you or not… But most people don’t realize that they’re heavily weighted in Google’s local algorithm as well. BrightLocal just released a really cool report on consumer reviews, and it’s got some pretty cool stuff in it. If

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Mean Tweets: NADA 2023 Edition

This week’s episode of Local Search Tuesdays is a fun one – we’re keeping the tradition alive with NADA mean tweets! This is the 8th year that Greg has done NADA mean tweets, although he started it nine years ago. Thanks to COVID, he had to skip a year. It’s based on Jimmy Kimmel’s bit

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Six Best SEO-themed Valentine’s Day Cards

It’s Valentine’s Day today, so if you’ve been watching this series for any time at all, you know that means we’re doing a special Valentine’s Day episode… You should know by now how much Greg loves to do special holiday-themed episodes – for years he’s been digging up the best SEO-themed Valentine’s day cards to

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Tips for Car Dealers: NADA 2023

This week, we’ve got some awesome tips to share with you from some of the experts and vendors at the National Auto Dealers Association conference a few weeks ago. SearchLab was in Dallas at the end of January for the 2023 NADA convention, and once again, we went around and collected helpful tips from vendors

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Greg’s SEO Presentation: Too Extreme for NADA

This week’s episode of Local Search Tuesdays is a fun one, ‘cause we’re sharing Greg’s slides from the NADA conference this last weekend. He wasn’t picked to speak at this year’s NADA conference… We’re guessing it’s because last year, he talked about how the manufacturer-approved vendor system is hopelessly broken and doesn’t actually benefit any

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Breaking News: Any Vehicle Dealer Can Now List Inventory On GBP

Welcome back to a special edition episode of Local Search Tuesdays… on a Wednesday! We’ve got huge news to share, and we just couldn’t wait until next week to tell you… Any motor vehicle dealer can now list inventory on their Google Business Profiles!

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Come See SearchLab at NADA in Dallas

This week’s episode of Local Search Tuesdays is short since we’re prepping for the National Auto Dealers Association conference in Dallas this weekend. In fact, that’s what this week’s episode is all about! NADA is the largest conference for car dealers each year, and we’re super excited to let you know what’s going on with

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Why It’s Important to Have a Local SEO Content Plan

We’ve mentioned it countless times in this video series and probably every time Greg has spoken at a conference for over 10 years – the most important element of any SEO strategy is the content on your site. At a simple level, if you want to show up as a search result when someone in

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How Long Does SEO Take?

In this week’s episode of Local Search Tuesdays, we’re going to answer one of the most common questions in SEO: “How long does SEO take?” Last week we were in Orlando for our annual leadership retreat, and while we had an awesome time at our Disney team building day, we did spend a bit of

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Which Video Equipment Do We Use?

On this week’s episode of Local Search Tuesdays, we’re giving you a little peek behind the scenes as we answer one of the most common questions we hear about this show: “What equipment do you use?”. We always get questions about our weekly videos and how we shoot them, but there were significantly more people

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