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Google Maps: Ongoing List of COVID-19 Updates
Throughout the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, Google made updates to help businesses align with the needs of users affected by various local and national guideline enforcements. This piece will collect and explain updates related to managing listings and the ways Google helps businesses reach consumers. Search Influence will update …
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A Quick (How-to) Guide on Updating Hours and Business Info on Google My Business
During a crisis, some businesses can continue operating with modified hours while others might have to close temporarily. Google is working on implementing the “Temporarily Closed” feature on Google My Business (GMB) pages in the upcoming days. We will update this post when the “Temporarily Closed” feature is available. In …
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Why You Should be Posting on Google My Business
“Just Yahoo it,” said no one ever. It just doesn’t have the same ring as “Google it,” which was officially added to the Oxford English Dictionary and the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary in 2006. That’s because Google has practically monopolized internet searching. According to NetMarketShare, Google accounted for over 79 percent …
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Grow Your Business With These 7 Digital Marketing Tactics
Members of the Search Influence team gave their insight on tried and true digital marketing strategies. These strategies apply to every industry, from plastic surgeons to attorneys, and many can be implemented across different channels of marketing. Using a mix of or all of the 7 tactics below is a …
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How a Debate About Onions Showed Google Might Not Be Infallible
A couple of weeks ago, I was driving to meet a friend for dinner when I heard a segment on NPR’s Marketplace that featured Tom Scocca talking about his article on Gizmodo about caramelized onions. At first, it seemed like many a segment on NPR we’ve come to expect—interesting and …
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#NOLATech Week 2016: How To Drive More Traffic To Your Site
In conjunction with NOLATech Week 2016, Search Influence hosted a workshop to help support small businesses in their online marketing efforts. Paula Keller and Mary Silva presented on how to boost your local search rankings and ways to drive traffic to your website respectively. Paula Keller’s “How To Boost …
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Here Are Our Top 5 Blogs From September
Another month, another top five blogs from Search Influence! All of these posts are chock-full of information that will help you keep your website in tip-top shape and give you some insight into life at Search Influence. Subscribe to our blog to stay up to date on what’s going on …
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How Google Possum Has Affected 3 Pack: A Before and After Review
Throughout September, the local search industry has been watching the results of the dubbed Google Possum update. In August 2015, Google shook up local search results, which changed the Map Pack from a 7 Pack to a very exclusive 3 Pack. This change was a dramatic one by omitting many …
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Local SEO: How to Clean up Citations for Better SERP Visibility
Google, Bing, and other major search engines are constantly changing and developing their search engine results pages (SERPs). Major components of these pages include organic, paid, and local results. With the ever-increasing use of mobile, these local results are growing in importance in overall SEO strategy. So how does one …
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Here Are Our Top 5 Blogs You May Have Missed Last Month
Woah! Did June fly by for you, too? If you are on the beach this week and doing some summertime reading, here are our most popular five blogs from last month that you will want to check out. What Happened to Facebook’s 20% Text Grid Tool? Michelle’s blog is coming in hot …
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