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Track Your Citation Building Efforts in Local Citation Finder with the To-Do List

Keep your campaigns organized in Local Citation Finder with the To-do list! This new feature allows you to mark your citation opportunities by importance and manage…

Google Business Profiles

GMB Messaging For Desktop Browsers is Rolling Out

Google My Business has updated its Messages feature to display conversations with customers in the dashboard on desktop. This feature originally could be set up on…

Local Mailbag

LocalMailbag: What Are the Critical Elements of a High Converting Local Contact Us Page?

Many businesses treat their contact page as just a place to put a plain old contact form or address, but it needs to be so much…

Google Business Profiles

GMB Feature Adoption & Trends: What We Learned From Studying 800,000 Listings

We recently hosted our first Local Search Summit and for the event we studied 800,000 Google My Business listings across 70 categories in 100 major cities…

Google Business Profiles

GMB Testing Call History: In-dashboard Call Tracking

Google My Business appears to be testing call tracking directly in the dashboard with a new beta feature called Call history.  Call history in GMB is…

Local SEO

Local Search Summit – Day 2

Day 2 of our Local Search Summit was filled with lessons in link building, GMB suspensions, technical SEO, local services ads, email marketing, and more. Today…