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12 Local Search Developments You Need to Know About from Q4 2022
Miriam Ellis

12 Local Search Developments You Need to Know About from Q4 2022

There has been so much going on, it’s a small wonder if you haven’t caught every development, but here’s a list of some of the most interesting ones you should be aware of as we look towards 2023. We’ve got one new interface, two awful bugs, three new GBP features, four review developments, several guideline updates … all that’s missing is the partridge in the pear tree!

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5 Ways to Get More with Less Through Link Building — Whiteboard Friday
Paddy Moogan

5 Ways to Get More with Less Through Link Building — Whiteboard Friday

As we enter 2023, several businesses are being squeezed because of rising costs. Customers are simultaneously struggling to cope with their living costs, which in turn affects companies and what products they can sell, and agencies and in-house teams come under more pressure to get more results, with limited budgets. In today’s Whiteboard Friday, Paddy walks through a few tactics to get more from less when it comes to your link building efforts.

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Local Pack Header Specificity Vanishes while Local Packs Downtrend
Miriam Ellis

Local Pack Header Specificity Vanishes while Local Packs Downtrend

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.

4 Common Mistakes E-commerce Websites Make Using JavaScript
Justyna Jarosz

4 Common Mistakes E-commerce Websites Make Using JavaScript

By leaving JavaScript unoptimized, you risk your content not getting crawled and indexed by Google. And in the e-commerce industry, that translates to losing significant revenue, because products are impossible to find via search engines. In this article, Justyna demonstrates how to avoid some of the most common mistakes e-commerce sites make when implementing JavaScript.

The Leading Characteristics of Review Writers, Review Readers, and Successful Owner Responses
Miriam Ellis

The Leading Characteristics of Review Writers, Review Readers, and Successful Owner Responses

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.