Maps, Google Business Profile, reviews, service areas and the rest of the work that decides whether somebody three streets away can find you at the moment they need you.
You built a website for your plumbing, HVAC, or landscaping business. That was the easy part. The hard part is making sure anyone actually finds it. Here's what service business owners need to understand about SEO right now -- without the jargon.
Category: Local SEO • Published: 2026-03-30
Google just launched Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered conversational feature that lets users ask natural language questions about local businesses. With 300 million locations and 500 million reviews as its data backbone, this changes how businesses get discovered.
Category: Local SEO • Published: 2026-03-25
Google Maps data now feeds ChatGPT and Perplexity. Unstructured citations rank as the 4th most important visibility factor. Review velocity beats review count. Here's what changed and what to do about it.
Category: Local SEO • Published: 2026-03-24
Service area businesses face a unique local SEO challenge: you serve customers across a region but don't have a storefront in every city. Here's the complete playbook for dominating local search when you don't have a physical location everywhere.
Category: Local SEO • Published: 2026-02-19