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Local Marketing Guide & Framework: A 5-step guide for your business to be relevant and prominent on search

Local marketing for businesses has evolved from the basic focus of UNAP and simple SEO to a more holistic approach…

5 years ago

Multi-Location Brands: Engage Your Local Consumers with Google Posts at Scale Across Locations

If you are a local business with multiple locations, Google Posts can be a great way for you to engage…

5 years ago

Google My Business Offers Secondary Hours for Chains and Individual Locations Within the Listing

Google My Business has recently launched a new feature for business with the ability to add “more hours” if your…

6 years ago

Local Search New Features and Updates Related to COVID-19

As COVID-19 continues to impact businesses around the world, many maps and local listing providers are changing how their directories…

6 years ago

Google My Business Limiting Functionality Due to COVID-19: What It Means for Milestone Clients

Being visible to customers with the right information at the right time can be a challenge to any local business…

6 years ago

Google November 2019 Update: Neural Matching and travel filters, Google improves its Local and Travel searches

While BERT stole the limelight of last month’s Google Updates, in November 2019, the search giant has been unrelenting in…

6 years ago

Why It’s Crucial for Businesses to Respond to Reviews

Reviews have become an integral part of our customer journey. “90% of customers read reviews before visiting a business,”* directly…

8 years ago

Are You Open for Business? Make Sure Potential Customers Know with Special Hours.

Does your business update its business hours on Google and Bing for holidays? If not, you could be missing out…

8 years ago

Milestone customers already benefiting from Google’s new local events search capabilities

Milestone customers already benefiting from Google’s new local events search capabilities

9 years ago

Fake/Incorrect Listings Threaten Local Businesses

There has been much buzz in recent days about the spread of fake news and its impact. But fake news…

9 years ago

Citations 101: Local SEO Foundation

Start the foundation of your SEO strategy with citations. Learn why citations are important and the steps to gain citations-…

9 years ago

Update: Google My Business Insights

NAPtune records Google My Business insights to better analyze user behavior across Google devices. Learn the latest Google My Business…

9 years ago

Staying On Top of the Local Mobile Experience: The AMP Optimized Experience

New ways of optimizing mobile are being discovered by a team of digital experts from multiple industries, including Google. Learn…

10 years ago

Optimizing Your Website for Local Search

Gone are the days, when location, location, location was considered as the real formula of a successful business. Today, it…

10 years ago

Key Takeaways from Local U Advanced – A Day with Local Search Experts

Missed the Local U SMX Advanced workshop? Here's a recap of what local search experts say are the latest trends…

12 years ago

Google+ Local URL Hijack

The URLs on thousands of Google+ Local pages for hotels were hijacked last week and changed to redirect to third…

12 years ago

Google Map Maker – Now Anyone Can Be a Local Expert!

Google Map Maker, a wholly-separate tool from Google Maps, allows you to add or edit the local information that you…

13 years ago

Review Filtering in the Local World – the Good, the Bad, the Ugly

Better customer reviews lead to higher rankings in search engines yet many authentic positive reviews seem to be disappearing due…

13 years ago

5 Facts About Google+ Local

Recently Google said goodbye to Google Places and launched Google+ Local. According to Google, “Google+ Local helps users discover and…

14 years ago

Optimizing for Local Search – Interview with Mike Blumenthal [Video]

At SMX Advanced Seattle 2012, Benu Aggarwal caught up with Mike Blumenthal to get the scoop on the latest tactics…

14 years ago

Review Management: the Front Desk of your Online Equity

Reviews can be one of the most powerful means of connecting with guests, building brand loyalty, and driving brand messages…

14 years ago

How to Combat Fake Reviews While Managing Online Reputation

The importance of online reputation management continues to grow, and those not actively working to monitor their online reputations are…

14 years ago

Top 5 Dos and Don’ts for Local Business Listings

Local Business Listing Tips – local marketing optimization has become a very important factor for Search Engine Optimization. Milestone compiled…

14 years ago

5 Proactive Ways to Manage Your Online Reputation

Online reputation can be determined by what people are saying about your business and how your business is perceived online.…

14 years ago

Google Places & Hotpot Optimization

Dive deep into targeted tactics for Local Search optimization on Google. One in five search queries have a local intent.…

14 years ago

10 Ways to Improve Google Local Ranking

anking locally is much more critical with the evolvement of local listings across the web such as Google Places, Bing…

15 years ago

Google Place Pages: Why it is Important for you?

Google dramatically expanded its collection of information about the real world with its introduction of Place Pages - a webpage…

15 years ago

SEO Strategies For Small Businesses – Go Local & Get Social – Milestone Interviews SEOmoz and Blitz Local

Milestone’s recent interview with Gillian Muessig, President & C0-Founder for SEOmoz, and Dennis of BlitzLocal reveals cutting-edge SEO strategies that…

16 years ago