January put a damper on local consumer search behavior, and it’s a trend that appears to have continued into February. In addition to the post-holiday slump, this year local businesses across all verticals had to contend with the ongoing impact of the Omicron variant and a surge in cases, as well. Inflation and rising gas
Are the consumer behavior patterns you’re seeing in each of your location’s Google My Business (GMB) insights keeping in line with broader industry-wide trends? Benchmarks help give local search insights context, which is why we’ve been sharing GMB insights each month from the 200,000+ U.S. enterprise locations we monitor. This month, we’re adding new benchmarks
April brought with it the promise of spring and this year, also dramatically reduced restrictions across much of North America as vaccines have become more widely available. Continuously evolving pandemic-related conditions have influenced consumer behavior in search since the crisis first struck early in 2020. In this post, we will cover search behavior trends April 2021
Since October 2020, Rio SEO has been analyzing anonymized Google My Business data for over 200,000 locations across the United States to bring you a monthly trends report to serve as a benchmark for local performance across seven different industries. In this blog post, we will dive deeper into the local consumer search behavior trends
Each month, we evaluate the local search performance of 200,000+ business locations to bring you new consumer search behavior insights. As the Coronavirus pandemic and associated social distancing and public health measures across the United States continue to impact local businesses, these benchmarks help brands understand how locations are affected in different industries. In this
Since COVID-19 sent brands worldwide into uncharted consumer behavior territory, we’ve been finding ways to help establish new benchmarks. In this ongoing series of monthly local search trends, we are uncovering insights from 203,600 enterprise locations to illustrate how COVID is impacting local search volume, views, and conversion rates. In this post, we will discuss
The Coronavirus pandemic has had a wide-ranging and unpredictable impact on the way consumers interact with businesses and use search to find solutions to their needs. Informational needs have grown exponentially as people learn to navigate public health measures, social distancing, new shopping methods such as BOPIS and contactless delivery, and more. Each month, we've
Over the last several tumultuous months, we’ve tapped into our local search data across 203,600 enterprise brand locations to help multi-location brands get a better handle on how COVID-19 is impacting local consumer behavior. We’ve published trending local keywords, SEO trends for 2021, and all of the latest COVID-19 resources for enterprise brands as they’ve
The Coronavirus pandemic is driving dramatic shifts in consumer behavior—that much is clear. Consumers are having to put more thought into everyday decisions such as where to shop, what time of day to visit a local store, or how to procure necessary items without having to go inside a store to get them. How are