Did you know that 97% of people learn about a local business online and 72% of consumers who performed a localized search visited a store within 5 miles. Having a solid local SEO strategy is the first step to put you on the map.
New to this form of marketing? Visit the Local Learning Center to get brought up to speed on topics like NAP accuracy, local website optimization, reviews, and more. Or audit the health of your top local business listings for free with the Moz Check Presence tool.
Today, we’ll be learning more about customer preferences by age group surrounding local business reviews, taking a deeper dive into some of the data from The Impact of Local Business Reviews on Consumer Behavior | SEO Industry Report.
In July of this year, Moz published a report analyzing an element of Google’s local results we termed “local pack headers”. About a month after publication, members of the local SEO community began noticing that the extraordinary diversity of headings we had captured had suddenly diminished. Today, Miriam presents a quick follow-up to the manual portion of our earlier study in an effort to quantify and illustrate this abrupt alteration.
Following our publication of The Impact of Local Business Reviews on Consumer Behavior, Miriam distills the dominant traits, characteristics, and behaviors shown by reviewers and business owners. These insights are meant to help you envision both the public and practices in an approachable manner, and enable you to form a useful mental picture of who and what you’re working with when it comes to growing and managing your reputation.
We’re thrilled to announce Moz’s first large-scale survey on the habits of local business review readers, review writers and successful owner responses. Read our free report today for dozens of actionable insights, thoughtful analysis, and expert commentary from local SEO industry professionals.
Big brands aren’t expecting a banner year for people buying new TVs or surveillance technology. Yet, if what your local business offers is help with basic needs and modest comforts, 2022’s holiday sales can be decent, if not a phenomenal spree. Let’s look at a solid strategy for stocking what folks want and communicating that you’re here to serve.
Google Business Profile is both a free tool and a suite of interfaces that encompasses a dashboard, in-SERP editing, local business profiles, and a volunteer-driven support forum with this branding. Share this simple, comprehensive article with incoming clients and team members to get off on the right foot with this important local business digital asset.
Miriam shares some of her learnings about marketing and sustainability, including insights from the co-authors of the celebrated book "Sustainable Marketing - How To Drive Profits with Purpose", Gemma Butler and Michelle Carvill. Find out why sustainable marketing is the critical skillnow for our careers and lives.
It’s the combination of how to consistently think local and how to selectively act local that you’ll be pursuing as a career scholar in local SEO. Today, Miriam lays out high quality paid and free local SEO educational resources and tools to keep you thinking and acting successfully in the years ahead.
43% of local marketers say that there aren’t enough resources available to teach them local SEO. Today, Moz is debuting our Local SEO Certification program to fulfill this need. With this well-organized, engaging video course, you can learn at your own pace, take an exam, and earn a certificate and LinkedIn badge as proof of your achievement.
Which local pack element is hiding in plain sight, has no industry name (despite being present in at least 33% of SERPs), and has curious behaviors which, up until now, have been little explored? It’s the thing I’ll call “local pack headers”. What are they, and why are they important?
While the majority of MozCon 2022 talks are not local-specific, nearly all of them featured applicable expert advice that local SEOs can turn to their advantage. Today, Miriam provides her personal rundown of the best tips she gleaned for local businesses from MozCon 2022.
Local SEOs are accustomed to continuous change in the SERPs, but if the American Innovation Online Choice Act becomes law and prevents monopolies like Google from preferencing their own assets, we need to prepare for what could be the largest search overhaul we’ve ever seen.
July 2022 is Independent Business Month, and the perfect moment to reinvigorate our work as local SEOs by reflecting on the meaningful bigger picture to which we’re contributing. This month, we have the opportunity to re-center people, community, and environment by considering the definition of localism and seeing how our work in local SEO matters.