by Justin Liles for Advice Local A Look at How Local Business Data Gets Distributed Online Have you ever wondered how business data gets distributed across the web? Or why local businesses sometimes appear in directories without ever having submitted a listing themselves? It all comes down to data aggregators. What is a Data Aggregator? Data … Read moreWhat are Data Aggregators?
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
by Barry Schwartz for SEO RoundTable If you search in Google for local businesses and get even more specific, such as ask for their reviews, phone number, address, hours of operation and so on, Google will now give you that information in the local box. Google did give you this information previously as a featured snippet … Read moreGoogle Local Results Showing Query Specific Data, Like Hours, Reviews, Phone & Address
By Bernadette Coleman Have you checked out Yelp’s new Questions & Answers feature yet? This feature enables the Yelp community to ask and answer specific questions about a business. Each question is connected to a specific business and the answers to the questions can come from other consumers or the businesses themselves. This feature … Read moreThe Power of Yelp’s Questions & Answers Feature for Businesses
By Andrew McDermott with Grade.Us February 21, 2017 Her doctor almost killed her… That’s Wendy Wester’s claim. She went to see Dr. Alan Brown, an orthopedic surgeon after her knee injury, when she was hurt skiing. Brown diagnosed her injury as an MCL tear. Wester was rushed to the emergency room after she experienced … Read moreAn Online Review Wake Up Call for Doctors and Lawyers
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
