SEO

2020 has nearly come to an end (cue sighs of relief!)  While this year presented many challenges, especially for local businesses, it also created the opportunity for triumph. Google My Business introduced more new features than ever, and we saw the good side of many organizations that strived to provide extra resources and relief to […]

Elie Orgel has been doing SEO for about ten years and I actually have some connections that go way back. He currently works at the Rosenblum Law firm as the director of marketing there. He got into SEO by making web sites for local businesses and then started to learn about SEO over time. He […]

Local marketing can be simply described as any marketing activity which puts your business in front of consumers within a certain radius of your location. While that’s straightforward enough, there are lots of different types of activity that fall under this neat umbrella. Local marketing is especially important for small and medium businesses which rely […]

Something is off with Google search this morning. It seems Google is not showing some fresh content in the search results. Site commands for this site and Wall Street Journal, as well as many other sites show little to zero new content in Google’s search results in the past hour. Some content I search for […]

On Wednesday, April 22, Sterling Sky’s resident spam fighter and GMB expert, Jason Brown, joined BrightLocal CEO Myles Anderson for another action-packed hour of Local Search Clinic. This week our expert was tasked with answering your questions on Google My Business (GMB) — and boy, there were a lot of questions to get through! Of […]

I was privileged to be asked to sit as a “mogul” on JTank, the Jewish version of SharkTank and this was a video throughout the day. I was not allowed to share information about the pitches, so that you will have to read about when that is published by Ami Magazine. But here is some […]

When BrightLocal CEO Myles Anderson talked to Schema App‘s Martha van Berkel at BrightLocal HQ, they opened up a treasure trove of impactful information on the often mysterious schema markup (also known as structured data). In this interview, Martha demystifies this important part of on-site optimization and clearly explains how local businesses should be using […]

Want to know how to get a suspended Google My Business listing reinstated? Here’s everything you need to know to get your all-important listing back, by GMB Product Expert Ben Fisher. Joe awoke one morning to find that the phones were not ringing for his business. He then had some people calling in from billboard […]