Lots of updates this month – if you’re a service area business -this month and next are going to bring some big changes and clarity for sure. This guide is over 280 pages of must-have information – so if you haven’t purchased yours yet, make sure you do it today!
- Updated the Service Area Business guidelines section to add 2 use cases for when SABs are allowed multiple listings.
- Does Yelp allow virtual offices to be listed? I got an answer from a Yelp spokesperson that clarifies how their policies differ from Google’s.
- Updated the section on Yelp Review policies to add what Yelp does to a business caught with fake reviews and how you can report a business to Yelp that is doing this.
- Updated the Google Posts section to replace some images that showed Posts in the wrong spot since Google moved them.
- Added a section clarifying how you can get the Located In feature on your listing and how this applies to practitioner listings.
- Updated the attributes section and clarified the change to the highly rated attribute.
- Updated the Google My Business category change list to show the category changes in October.
- Updated the GMB Agency Dashboard section to explain how the migration tool works.
- How does the new future opening date feature work? Here is what you need to know.
- Updated the timeline of updates to include everything that’s happened so far in October.
Local SEO Analyst/Community Manager at Sterling Sky, Inc.
Carrie HIll is a Local Search Analyst with Sterling Sky, Inc., and community manager for LocalU.org.Her background in online marketing started 12 years ago in a small agency focused on the hospitality industry.
Since then Carrie has become an expert on technical SEO and website structure issues, as well as an industry speaker on Local Search, Google My Business, and the Semantic web.
Since then Carrie has become an expert on technical SEO and website structure issues, as well as an industry speaker on Local Search, Google My Business, and the Semantic web.
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