Landon Murie is the CEO of Goodjuju Marketing, helping home service businesses with local SEO, stunning websites, and boosting close rates. How many Google reviews does your local business have? Does ...

Google reviews seem to be disappearing from Google Business Profile local listings. In the past few days or so there has been an influx of complaints in the Google Business Profile forums. I have not ...

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When launching and successfully operating a local business, your online reputation is one of the most influential assets you can build. A combination of delivering great consumer experiences and ...

Google Business Profile (GBP) may be getting shoved down the SERPs by ads and AI Overviews more than ever, but it’s still a top source of inbound leads for local businesses — and one of the fastest ...

Review count and keywords in reviews are most important for gaining top spots. Proximity remains the most prevalent local search factor. This can vary by business sector. New data on over 3,000 Google ...

There has been an uptick in complaints from businesses around Google local reviews disappearing or being removed. We had something similar last October and it was fixed in December and now I am seeing ...

2025 has been a challenging year for small business owners. Rising tariffs, economic legislation and squeezed consumer spending have made every customer count more than ever. On top of that, Google's ...

Many businesses see their Google Business Profile as a listing to verify and then leave untouched. Google’s new Ask Maps feature treats it as a conversational dataset for generating helpful answers ...