by Matt McGee for SearchEngineLand Skype-powered chatbot is showing up as an assistant to help searchers learn about restaurants in the Seattle area. Bing has added a chatbot to help users with some of its local search results for restaurants in the Seattle area. After getting a tip from a reader, I was able to reproduce the … Read moreBing has a chatbot answering local search questions
How These Changes Can Impact Local Businesses By Lisa Dutty Google has certainly been busy lately! Over the past month, marketers and consumers alike have noticed a number of interesting changes to some of the search giant’s core products and features. Since many of the updates affect online visibility for local businesses, we thought it would … Read moreWhat’s Happening with Google Lately?
It was just a simple four-page website for the Murray Group, an insurance company based in Albany, New York. And it hadn’t been updated for three years. Ryan Hanley changed all that. In the process of that change, he nearly tripled traffic and generated $4,975 in new business within 100 days…and much more afterward. “That’s … Read more5 Simple Steps To More Local Business Website Traffic in 2017
Source: Andrew McDermott — Business2Community Remember Amy and Samy Bouzaglo? They’re the couple behind the infamous Amy’s Baking Company. They made headlines in 2013 after they appeared on Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. It didn’t go well. Caution: The video below contains some NSFW language. They threatened to stab customers. Stole tips from their servers. Repackaged other … Read more5 Types of Phrases in Online Reviews that Create Customer Distrust
Google My Business keeps getting better and better. Of course, that means that there is yet another spot for local businesses to manage and maintain. You can now add menus to your business listings – from Google’s announcement: There are two kinds of menus: A menu for an eating and drinking establishment (like restaurants or … Read moreGoogle My Business adds menus to listings
By DAVID CARD, for StreetFightMag. A new industry-sponsored study of mobile advertisers and agencies offers guidance for hyperlocal marketing providers. Big brands and their agencies are increasing their mobile marketing efforts, with a keen focus on location data and social media integration. The Mobile Marketing Association recently released a report sketching out the key findings from … Read moreSurvey of Mobile Marketers Highlights Growing Focus on Location Data, Social Media
