BIA Advisory Services reached out to me a few weeks ago for some feedback on a study about how the big online news platforms were affecting the businesses of local news broadcasters. In their recently published study commissioned by NAB, “The Economic Impact of Big Tech Platforms on the Viability of Local Broadcast News”, BIA estimates […]
For all you Local Pack-o-Meter watchers, you may recall that last month we saw an increase in the presence of both Ads and Shopping Boxes and chalked that up to business optimism about the economy. I don’t want to say that April showers are raining on the parade, but we did see a slight pull-back […]
It was just over a year ago that Dan Leibson open sourced aggregate Lighthouse performance testing in Google Data Studio (yet another resource in the SEO industry inspired by Hamlet Batista). I’d like to share with you some observations I’ve made over the past year of running Lighthouse testing on our clients’ sites and how […]
In fact, we never have been in Kansas, but Google seems to disagree. In November 2020, Google suddenly decided that Local SEO Guide, Inc, a business located in Pleasanton, CA, was actually located in Fawn Creek Township, KS.
Hey @methode any chance regex filters coming to the GSC Search Analytics report any time soon? — Andrew Shotland (@localseoguide) August 15, 2015 Well it finally happened. Google Search Console’s Search Performance report now supports regular expressions. So this is great because you can now do cool searches like:
This is the first in a monthly series of updated Local Pack-O-Meter data. Each month we will report on the changes we see in Google SERP features across ~60M U.S. search queries (graciously provided by Traject Data). Without further ado, here is the March 2021 report: As in February, most of the action in March […]
Aaron Weiche on Lead🔥ferno, his new business texting & messaging app startup: The vision for Leadferno is to help businesses and consumers make delightful connections at speed. Email feels slow, phone calls are taxing and that’s not how consumers prefer to get answers, help and solutions anymore…We’re designing a better, faster and easier communication experience […]
One of the operating theories here at LSG is pretty much everything is going “Local,” but we never were really sure by how much, until today that is. Behold the Local-Pack-O-Meter!:
We have never had salespeople. And yet we have grown from one guy working out of his bedroom to almost 20 men and women working out of their bedrooms. We want to keep growing; to support the innovative tools and services the team has created, to give our people more opportunities for career growth, […]
This is a bit of a self-serving post, but this is an SEO blog so that’s kind of baked into the cake anyhow. I am not saying your SEO agency, or even your in-house SEO team, shouldn’t jump all over a site when its SEO is disintegrating in your hands. The team should have a […]