Details about Google’s new Openness Update

In this week’s episode, I’m sharing the details around Google’s recent “Openness Update”, which (currently) affects the visibility of local businesses based on the hours of operation listed in the Google Business Profile. There’s been a lot of buzz lately, so I’m sharing a simple explanation and an outline of how your Local SEO strategy should change because of the update.


How to optimize your GBP landing page

In this week’s video, I explain how to optimize your Google Business Profile landing page – the page that your GBP website button points to on your website. For single-location businesses, that’s the home page of the site. For multi-location businesses, the landing page will be the individual location page for that specific location.


Local SEO Tips from Barbados SEO

In this week’s episode, I’m sharing my entire presentation from the recent Barbados SEO conference. Learn the latest tactics to help you achieve better visibility in local search results, including writing helpful content, optimizing for local visibility, building local links, acquiring local reviews, and optimizing your Google Business Profile.


What we learned from auditing over 8,500 Google Business Profiles

In this week’s video, I share a recording of my entire presentation from the first US edition of Brighton SEO in San Diego a few weeks ago. We’re finishing a massive 2-year research project on Google Business Profiles, and I share some of the exciting results from the study, helping to shed light on which factors the top-ranking GBPs have across multiple verticals.