Game Changing Technology for any Business
Posted by Whitespark
It has been another year (and a half) since the last publication of the Local Search Ranking Factors, and local search continues to see significant growth and change. The biggest shift this year is happening in Google My Business signals, but we’re also seeing an increase in the importance of reviews and continued decreases in the importance of citations.
Huge growth in Google My Business
Google has been adding features to GMB at an accelerated rate. They see the revenue potential in local, and now that they have properly divorced Google My Business from Google+, they have a clear runway to develop (and monetize) local. Here are just some of the major GMB features that have been released since the publication of the 2017 Local Search Ranking Factors:
- Google Posts available to all GMB users
- Google Q&A
- Website builder
- Services
- Messaging
- Videos
- Videos in Google Posts
These features are creating shifts in the importance of factors...
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