Local Search

Growing a Business

46% of All Google Searches Have to Do With Location, One Report Says — and Purchases Often Follow. Here's How to Boost Your Business' Visibility Locally.

Explore proven techniques and actionable tips to help you enhance your business visibility in your community and stay ahead of the competition.

Growing a Business

6 Cheap But Meaningful Ways to Boost Your Company's Local Awareness

Community engagement is one of the keys to running a successful local business. Here's how investing in your community can build trust, foster loyalty and boost awareness.

Marketing

Struggling in Local Search? Here's What Your Local SEO Strategy Needs to Compete in 2022.

A few small strategy changes can make a big difference for your local SEO presence and your bottom line.

Growing a Business

6 SEO Tips to Benefit Any Business

Small Business Week is a good time to quit procrastinating and optimize your SEO to rank higher, load faster and reach more visitors.

Marketing

Super Bowl Provides Opportunity for Local Businesses to Score Big

There will be millions of gatherings to watch the game, and just about every snack will have been purchased close to home.

Growing a Business

Boost Your Rankings With the Ultimate Local SEO Cheat Sheet (Infographic)

Local SEO isn't a game of chance. It's a step-by-step, predictable process that anyone can master -- including you.

Technology

What AskMe's shutdown means for other startups

Why has AskMe joined hundreds of startups that closed down?

Data & Recovery

7 Ways to Make Search Results For Your Brand Name Exactly How You Want Them

You want searchers to find your brand specifically, not just the products or services you offer.

Marketing

9 Ways Small Businesses Can Be Big on Google

With diligent attention to the tricks of the online business trade, smaller businesses can climb to that coveted first spot on the search page.

Data & Recovery

Google Can Now Tell People When Your Business Is Too Busy to Visit

Fueled by GPS data, the all-seeing Internet giant is showing consumers the not-so-best times to visit your establishment.

Data & Recovery

Why Local SEO Is About to Become Even More Important

A number of factors, including the rise of wearables and increased competition, places a greater focus on location.

Business News

Mobile Marketing That Makes Sense

Customers are now searching for and viewing their favorite businesses on their phones much more often than their desktops computers.

Business News

7 Tools From Google to Boost Your Brand

Some of these services are well known, while others are a bit obscure.

Data & Recovery

Google Launches Program to Help Small Businesses Become More Visible

The web giant's latest initiative provides online and in-person assistance to help small business owners throughout the U.S. list their companies on Google Search, Google Maps and Google+.

Marketing

4 Techniques for Earning Links to Your Site

Links are still the key to your site's visibility. Find out how to attract links that attract viewers.