Local Search

How to Keep Your Local Business Website Up to Date with a Content Audit

When COVID started in 2020, you likely got onto your small business website and dutifully added information about your COVID-19 practices and how you are keeping your customers safe. Now, almost two years later, the changing recommendations and realities for handling COVID as a small business mean that first information you provided is likely out […]

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Are Location Pages Dead?

It was not long ago that location pages were one of the most valuable, most easily forgotten parts of SEO. It was something that we prioritized here at Great Leap Studios, because it helped overcome one of the most common problems with Google search optimization: location relevance. We’re in Folsom. Folsom is a 5 minute

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Will Google Places Replace SEO?

Google Places is a new-ish feature of the Google search engine that affects search engine placement of local businesses. It’s existed in various forms for a while, but within the past year it has essentially taken over front page results, adding about 10 or so listings in the middle of a search page and pushing

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Marketing Your City

Recently I spent some time in Merced, California; a city with a population of 80,000 that most Californians don’t know exists. Merced was at the heart of the housing bubble. A new UC opened up while home prices were inflated, and dozens of developers created brand new mansions expecting an influx of new homeowners only

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Put Your Business Into Yelp

Our goal is to improve your company’s exposure, bringing visitors to your website and boosting your revenue. We’re good at it. We’re really good. We’re so good they have shrines to us in the heart of SEOCopywritopia. It’s a neat little country just south of France. Everyone is an expert at things they’ve never read

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Is Your Data Right in Local Search?

A lot of people create local search profiles, start optimizing, start gathering reviews, and start overhauling their websites but they neglect one simple thing – they forget to check if their data is actually correct in those local portals. It’s a huge problem and even some major corporations have been punished because of it. What

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