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The local pack, Google Business Profile, Google Maps, and reviews — visibility for businesses that serve a place.

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Precise Business Profile Categories Track With Higher Local Rank. Featured image for SEO
Local / yesterday

Precise Business Profile Categories Track With Higher Local Rank

By Alessandro Benigni
Google Rebuilds Local Services Ads Categories, Adds Pre-Badge Leads. Featured image for SEO
Local / 3 days ago

Google Rebuilds Local Services Ads Categories, Adds Pre-Badge Leads

By Alessandro Benigni
Gemini's Local Search Citations Rarely Repeat, New Study Finds. Featured image for SEO
Local / Aug 20

Gemini's Local Search Citations Rarely Repeat, New Study Finds

By Alessandro Benigni
Local AI Overviews Cite a Rival's Listicle, Not the Business. Featured image for SEO
Local / Aug 13

Local AI Overviews Cite a Rival's Listicle, Not the Business

By Alessandro Benigni
Google Bars Repeated Bilingual Business Names From Profile Listings. Featured image for SEO
Local / Aug 11

Google Bars Repeated Bilingual Business Names From Profile Listings

By Alessandro Benigni
Yelp Adds Booking to ChatGPT, Bypassing Restaurant Sites. Featured image for SEO
Local / Aug 11

Yelp Adds Booking to ChatGPT, Bypassing Restaurant Sites

By Alessandro Benigni
Local AI Answers Cite 6 to 27 Domains, Rarely the Business Itself. Featured image for SEO
Local / Aug 4

Local AI Answers Cite 6 to 27 Domains, Rarely the Business Itself

By Alessandro Benigni
Google Local Services Ads Will Require D-U-N-S Numbers For Some. Featured image for SEO
Local / Aug 3

Google Local Services Ads Will Require D-U-N-S Numbers For Some

By Alessandro Benigni
Google's AI Overview closed a bakery that wasn't closing. Featured image for SEO
Local / Jul 27

Google's AI Overview closed a bakery that wasn't closing

By Alessandro Benigni
Yelp Feeds ChatGPT the Local Data It Is Suing Google Over. Featured image for SEO
Local / Jul 24

Yelp Feeds ChatGPT the Local Data It Is Suing Google Over

By Alessandro Benigni
GBP Bug Hides Owner Review Replies, Only Visible When Logged Out. Featured image for SEO
Local / Jul 23

GBP Bug Hides Owner Review Replies, Only Visible When Logged Out

By Alessandro Benigni
Service Area Businesses Can't See Their Map Pin, But Strangers Can Edit It. Featured image for SEO
Local / Jul 22

Service Area Businesses Can't See Their Map Pin, But Strangers Can Edit It

By Alessandro Benigni
Correction: Google's OpenTable Maps Partnership Is Still Active. Featured image for SEO
Local / Jul 21

Correction: Google's OpenTable Maps Partnership Is Still Active

By Alessandro Benigni
Local Services Ads Move Into Google Ads, and Old Reports Won't Follow. Featured image for SEO
Local / Jul 21

Local Services Ads Move Into Google Ads, and Old Reports Won't Follow

By Alessandro Benigni
Google Quietly Pulls Its OpenTable-in-Maps Help Page. Featured image for SEO
Local / Jul 20

Google Quietly Pulls Its OpenTable-in-Maps Help Page

By Alessandro Benigni
Apple's Maps Ad Rules Shut Out Plumbers, Electricians, Locksmiths. Featured image for SEO
Local / Jul 17

Apple's Maps Ad Rules Shut Out Plumbers, Electricians, Locksmiths

By Alessandro Benigni
GBP's New Collected Info Tab Lets Owners See What Robocalls Learned. Featured image for SEO
Local / Jul 14

GBP's New Collected Info Tab Lets Owners See What Robocalls Learned

By Alessandro Benigni
Google Business Profiles Show Empty Review Dashboards, Again. Featured image for SEO
Local / Jul 13

Google Business Profiles Show Empty Review Dashboards, Again

By Alessandro Benigni
Google Folds Evidence Uploads Into GBP Suspension Appeals. Featured image for SEO
Local / Jul 9

Google Folds Evidence Uploads Into GBP Suspension Appeals

By Alessandro Benigni
Google Confirms Review Losses, Freezes New Reviews on Some Profiles. Featured image for SEO
Local / Jul 6

Google Confirms Review Losses, Freezes New Reviews on Some Profiles

By Alessandro Benigni
Google Stacks GBP Review Restrictions For Repeat Violations. Featured image for SEO
Local / Jul 6

Google Stacks GBP Review Restrictions For Repeat Violations

By Alessandro Benigni
Google Tests Local Pack Redesign With Map Moved to Top. Featured image for SEO
Local / Jul 6

Google Tests Local Pack Redesign With Map Moved to Top

By Alessandro Benigni
Google Brings Back GBP Messaging, Now Powered by an AI Agent. Featured image for SEO
Local / Jun 29

Google Brings Back GBP Messaging, Now Powered by an AI Agent

By Alessandro Benigni
GA4 Now Pulls Google Business Profile Data Natively. Featured image for SEO
Local / Jun 15

GA4 Now Pulls Google Business Profile Data Natively

By Alessandro Benigni
Google Brings Property Listings Into Local Services Ads Nationally. Featured image for SEO
Local / Jun 15

Google Brings Property Listings Into Local Services Ads Nationally

By Alessandro Benigni
Google Bug Silently Added WhatsApp Numbers to Business Profiles. Featured image for SEO
Local / Jun 12

Google Bug Silently Added WhatsApp Numbers to Business Profiles

By Alessandro Benigni
Google connects Business Profile to Gemini for review and listing edits. Featured image for SEO
Local / Jun 12

Google connects Business Profile to Gemini for review and listing edits

By Alessandro Benigni
Google silently removes 92.6% of five-star review replies. Featured image for SEO
Local / Jun 11

Google silently removes 92.6% of five-star review replies

By Alessandro Benigni
GA4 Now Links Natively to Google Business Profile. Featured image for SEO
Local / Jun 8

GA4 Now Links Natively to Google Business Profile

By Alessandro Benigni
Google Tests a Real-Time Stock Button in the Local Pack. Featured image for SEO
Local / May 28

Google Tests a Real-Time Stock Button in the Local Pack

By Alessandro Benigni
Google Business Profiles Now Show Per-Photo View Counts. Featured image for SEO
Local / May 27

Google Business Profiles Now Show Per-Photo View Counts

By Alessandro Benigni
Google Business Profile Rejections Now Name the Rule You Broke. Featured image for SEO
Local / May 26

Google Business Profile Rejections Now Name the Rule You Broke

By Alessandro Benigni
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