Last Week in Local is a look back at the interesting and important articles from the previous week. It is 20-30 minutes long and covers critical industry trends, interesting local news and tactical insights for anyone interested in Local Search.
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Please join us for the last week in Local Search for the week ending April 27, 2020.
Mike’s Links:
- Automatic Instacart Bots – Schneier on Security
- AP: Publicly traded firms get $300M in small-business loans – APNews.com
- COVID-19 DEVASTATING HOTEL INDUSTRY – AHLA.com
- What’s Amazon’s Market Share – Benedict Evans via Twitter.com
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Google My Business Listings – Reputation.com
- SpecialAnnouncement COVID JSON-LD Generator – aymen-loukil.com
- Yext Replacement Service – Darren Shaw – Whitespark.ca
- Google Screened Local Services Ads Profile Update – TomWaddington.com
- It’s Now Free to Sell Products on Google – Google.com
- To beat Amazon, Google needs to be more than the ‘Bing of e-commerce’ – Greg Sterling – SearchEngineLand.com
Mary’s Links:
- Here are the public companies that got coronavirus aid meant for small businesses – Marketwatch.com
- Smaller Gyms Renting Equipment to Members for Monthly Fee Amounts – Carolyn Lyden via Twitter.com
- Data Studio Keyword Tracking by Noah Lerner – BikeShopSEO
Carrie’s Links:
- Google Q & A is Starting to Return – Mike Blumenthal – GatherUp
- COVID-19 “Get Online Care” Links Showing on Mobile – Carrie Hill – Localu.org
- Urgent/Immediate Care Links Only Showing for Big Metro Areas
- How to Use Structured Data to Support E-A-T Lily Ray – SearchEngineJournal.com
- Getting to great matches in Google Search – Google Blog
- Page Speed for SMB’s: Improving Page Speed – Part 3 – Niki Mosier – LocalU.org
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