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Carrie comes to Sterling Sky with SEO experience that dates back to 2005! She has a passion for figuring out what works for each and every client and picking apart the problems that arise in our “it depends” relationship with Google. She has also been organizing and nurturing the LocalU Conference Series since 2017 – through to today – across a hectic few years of pandemic and back into in-person conferences again.

Video: Last Week in Local for Week Ending August 2, 2021

By Carrie Hill / August 2, 2021

Join Mike and Carrie as they discuss Mask Mandates from Enterprise brands, Amazon’s employment dominance, QR Codes and DoorDash Kitchens!Last Week in Local is your one-stop source for all of the interesting and important articles from the previous week. It covers critical industry trends, interesting local news, and tactical insights for anyone interested in Local…

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Video: Last Week in Local for July 6, 2021

By Carrie Hill / July 6, 2021

Mike, Carrie & Mary discuss the role of AI in staffing a business, GMB Spam and Google’s desire to avoid the onus when it comes to local and map spam, Location Page Providers and core web vitals, and much more.Last Week in Local is a look back at the interesting and important articles from the…

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Video: Last Week in Local for Week Ending June 28, 2021

By Carrie Hill / June 28, 2021

Join Mike, Mary & Carrie as they discuss the latest news from the last week in local – including ADA woes for Dominoes, Amazon & Google in HOt Water over fake reviews in the UK, LocalU Advanced Agenda & much more!Last Week in Local is a look back at the interesting and important articles from…

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Video: Last Week in Local for Week Ending June 21, 2021

By Carrie Hill / June 21, 2021

Join Mike, Mary and Carrie as they discuss Uberall’s acquisition of Momentfeed, how SMBs can be good partners to their marketing agency, and much more. Last Week in Local is a look back at the interesting and important articles from the previous week. It covers critical industry trends, interesting local news, and tactical insights for…

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Video: Last Week in Local for the Week Ending June 14, 2021

By Carrie Hill / June 14, 2021

Carrie, Mary, and Mike discuss Google’s Small Business Advisors, the FTC’s resolution with MoviePass, Rating Pins on Maps, Relations in GMB and much more!Last Week in Local is a look back at the interesting and important articles from the previous week. It covers critical industry trends, interesting local news, and tactical insights for anyone interested…

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Video: Obtaining a Personal Brand Panel – A Discussion with Jason Barnard

By Carrie Hill / June 7, 2021

As an author, scholar, expert and even business owner becomes more prominent in their industry, and authoritative in their knowledge – the Google SERP can reflect their trust in that knowledge by showing a personal brand panel – or personal knowledge panel. For example – here’s Mike’s Jason Barnard of Kalicube joins Mike and Mary…

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Video: Last Week in Local for Week Ending June 7, 2021

By Carrie Hill / June 7, 2021

Join Mary Bowling, Mike Blumenthal, and special guest Jason Barnard as they discuss the weeks’ news in local search & SEOThen hop over and watch their discussion about obtaining a Personal Brand Panel, with tactics and strategy. Last Week in Local is a look back at the interesting and important articles from the previous week.…

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Video: Last Week in Local for the Week Ending June 1, 2021

By Carrie Hill / June 1, 2021

Mary, Mike & Carrie discuss the last week’s local search & SEO news. Info & news from Google Marketing Live, Amazon’s Sidewalk “opt-out”, Scholarship linkbuilding & more. Last Week in Local is a look back at the interesting and important articles from the previous week. It covers critical industry trends, interesting local news, and tactical…

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Video: Last Week in Local for Week Ending May 24, 2021

By Carrie Hill / May 24, 2021

Today Mike, Mary & Carrie discuss Google I/O, Tess Voecks’ Freelancer Management Dashboard, The Shopping Graph, Keywords that Clients Actually Use, and much more! It’s a holiday in Canada, Happy Victoria Day to my co-workers – so you’re treated to the not even novice video editing skills of Carrie this week. Richard will be back…

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Video: Last Week in Local for Week Ending May 17, 2021

By Carrie Hill / May 17, 2021

Today Mike, Mary & Carrie discuss the return of the 10-pack, google’s technical SEO discovery chops, common service area business GMB mistakes, great service business optimization tactics, and more. Last Week in Local is a look back at the interesting and important articles from the previous week. It covers critical industry trends, interesting local news,…

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