These 'local results' that Rand Fishkin (follow @randderuiter on Threads) generated with ChatGPT are A M A Z I N G.

I think local search will be safe from the AI-searchpocalypse for a while yet.

🚨 I think there is a NEW Local Ranking Factor!

Local SEOs have always known that setting service areas on your Google Business Profile has no impact on rankings. We've gone so far as to call this 'factor' a local search myth.

But, I've heard a couple people say they think

Google is testing displaying social media posts prominently on Google Business Profiles (first screenshot) - via Amy Mattison Toman 🐚🩴🐚.

These are Facebook posts, not Google Posts.

In this treatment, the social posts are shown prominently high up on the Profile, as opposed to Google Posts,

We witnessed the most incredible pink (PINK!) northern lights in Edmonton last night.

Turn on GBP messaging they said.

Turns it on:

How can you get more quality backlinks & citations? 🤔

Well, one of my favorite strategies is what I call the 'Rolodex method'. Here's how it goes:

1️⃣ Open your phone's contacts.
2️⃣ Identify business owners with websites.
3️⃣ Think of why they might link to your business.
4️⃣ If

Google may be replacing LSA reviews with GBP reviews!

Pray to all your gods that they do this. LSA reviews are riddled with abuse and fake reviews, and Google does nothing about it. This would be a huge improvement.

Read the full post on Near Media.

I caught a Google test. Check out the posts on this listing; they're FB posts, not GBP posts. Can't see it again. Has anyone seen this?

Did you know that some businesses have a downloadable map specifically for the business?

This only seems to appear when a business covers a larger area. For example, here's one for a wildlife refuge.

Did you know that this was a thing?

#localseo #seo

🚨 Here's a competitive sabotage tactic you should watch out for...

Your rankings will plummet if a competitor marks your Google Business Profile as temporarily closed.

We've added a new feature to the Whitespark Local Platform to prevent this from happening to you or your

Interesting Local SEO tidbit:

A customer left a review 2 minutes ago, but we replied 2 hours ago? Huh?

FYI: This can happen when the customer goes back and edits the review.

So, if you see something like this and you're wondering what's up, now you know!

#seo #localseo

Just in case you didn't get the memo:
'🌎 ​Google's reported market share drop​ of 4.4 percentage points in a month which was wildly discussed is more likely an erroneous data point with the source, StatCounter, only having a sample of 0.15% via Natalia Witczyk'

This is a good improvement, and I’m glad to see it.

I was starting to worry that there would be no further development on anything at Google that doesn’t relate directly to ad revenue.

Check out these results!

We've done a ton of great work on Anne's local SEO, but honestly, I attribute this mostly to rebranding the business with keywords in the name.

You can follow our complete SEO journey on @Whitespark's YouTube channel.

#localseo #seo

Ugh. AI chatbot support is NOT support. Please stop that.

It really doesn’t look like the decision of an ambitious company committed to have the best possible talent to stay ahead and release the best products out there 😐👇

“Just ahead of its blowout first-quarter earnings report on April 25, Google laid off at least 200 employees

I got this one too. I signed up because the service is always sticky and non-drop. I can confirm that I am now happy all-time.