There comes a time in each enterprise brand’s local marketing strategy when you outgrow manual location listing management, and sometimes even bulk uploads for some tasks. Google’s Business Profile Application Programming Interface (API) is built specifically for multi-location brands and enterprises for simplified location management at scale. This isn’t another tool or dashboard for your
As consumer habits shift with seasonal changes, pop-up and specialty stores emerge in malls, town centers and other populated areas. In the summer, ice cream and beach accessory shops reign, while the fall summons a number of spooky costume and party retailers. And, of course, with winter comes holiday-themed pop-ups and kiosks featuring ornaments, wreaths and other jolly decorations. In this post you will learn how to drive visibility to seasonal pop-up shops.
In competitive local retail markets, brands must do everything in their power to be seen and located. Consumers are constantly searching for goods and services near them—often even while they’re already in retail stores, looking at products. Multi-location retailers need smart, scalable local SEO strategies to increase online visibility, convert more potential customers and ultimately boost revenue. These five local SEO strategies are critical to get right across the brand.
Over the past couple of years, local search marketing has become a necessity for every business, big or small. To compete in local markets, you must make sure your business is present on Google, Bing and Yelp. However, big brands have struggled to make their marketing dollars produce the maximum benefit. Traditionally, brands have looked
Smartphones have become ubiquitous in the shopping process, from discovery to comparison-shopping to actually completing transactions. The trend to mobile has dramatically and permanently changed the way shoppers look for local business information. People are increasingly searching for local business data while they’re on the go and even while in-store considering a purchase. In fact,
Search and digital marketing has evolved. With the evolution, it increasingly aids consumers in finding real-world products and locations. Clearly, a more sophisticated approach to identifying search-to-in-store-sales is needed now. Consumers are more mobile-focused than ever. For example, smartphones dominate, accounting for 60% of our digital media time. Likewise, earlier this year we also learned
Earlier this month, Google modified the map results. It renders three local business results rather than the seven that have graced desktop local search for the past several years. The ‘map pack’ terminology used by the search community has been degraded to ‘stack pack,’ ‘snack pack’ for restaurants or for those more upset at the
Rankings in local results are a critical consideration for businesses. This is especially true given the great commercial intent and physical proximity of local searchers. Yet how accurately can your brand measure rankings for locations within neighborhoods? We recently played host to Local Search Summit: Spring Into Local event in San Diego. There, I was
Last week in sunny San Diego, Community Manager for Google My Business Jade Wang opened Rio SEO’s Local Search Summit conference with an information-packed keynote for local and multi-location marketers. Wang launched her Going Local with Google presentation at Local Search Summit by identifying Google’s goals in local search: to help searchers discover new places and
Ever since Google rolled out its Pigeon algorithm for local search last year, local businesses have scrambled to keep up with ever-evolving search criteria to claim those coveted top spots on mobile. Pigeon was a game changer for local search, as the update altered local results and changed the way that the search engine interpreted location tools.