In our Ultimate Guide to Store Locators, we talked about how adding a basic set of State > City > Location internal links to search-only store locators can improve SEO performance for the Location Pages. A search-only locator page usually includes a store locator map and/or store finder that searches a number of locations to find the nearest...

Local grid rankings reports have been a great local SEO tool for a while. They can give you a sense of how a business ranks across various areas of a city, county, etc. Here’s an example of BrightLocal’s grid rank report: We found these reports so useful, we built our own uglier version in Looker Studio so we could customize the data. One of the...

Hey Local SEOs! In 2014, LSG released N.A.P. Hunter, a free Chrome Extension that enabled you do to run several standard local business NAP (Name, Address, & Phone Number) queries at once, then export the Google results into a CSV. At its peak, N.A.P. Hunter had more than 4,000 regular users. It broke a few years ago and we finally got around...

I learned a lot at Pubcon’s 2024 conference in Vegas. You can’t say that about most trade shows. So I decided to share some knowledge on the best AI SEO tools recommended by the pros at the show on LSGSEO blog. And if you’re wondering what’s going on with the two separate sites – at some point we will turn LocalSEOGuide.com into more of a resource...

Check Out Our New Site! You may have noticed this big honking new LSGSEO logo in the middle of the homepage. I thought it might merit an explanation. A few years ago, some of the team felt strongly that calling ourselves “Local” SEO Guide made it seem like all we did was Local SEO and was confusing and put people off. The truth was that about 50%...

Elon Musk strikes me as something of a prankster, so I am sure he would approve of someone creating a Chrome bookmark that overwrites the new X.com logo with the old Twitter bird logo. So we made one. Here’s how it works: Create a new bookmark in Chrome. Call it “Twitter Or Die” (or whatever turns you on). Save it in your Bookmarks Bar. Edit the...