Google published a research paper describing how it extracts “services offered” information from local business sites to add it to business profiles in Google Maps and Search. The algorithm describes ...

Google won’t rank what it can’t confidently identify. See how business names and primary categories determine local search eligibility.

Researchers introduce a group-driven initialization that fuses search history with graph modularity, boosting ...

“How can I rank better beyond my location?” is a common local SEO question. It’s fairly easy for your local business to be highly visible in Google’s local packs and maps when searching for it while ...

There are reports of a major local search ranking change with Google Maps and Local Search results. The reports of this local search algorithm update started to funnel in over the weekend, with some ...