Google My Business is introducing a new feature that allows hotel business owners to specify check-in and check-out times. “We’re pleased to announce that hotels can now add their check-in and check-out times to their business listing in Google My Business. This information helps customers know when rooms will be ready and when they must […]
Last year, Black Friday and Cyber Monday led to record-breaking consumer spending, and this year is predicted to be an even bigger event as e-commerce methods are expected to take home more of the pie than ever before. So much so that Deloitte’s holiday retail forecasts predict that “total retail sales will increase 5-5.6 percent, […]
Affectionately called the Great White North, Canada is known for many things but more notably, maple syrup, hockey, and the honorable prime minister, Justin Trudeau. With a robust $1.53 trillion GDP, the most important industries in the country are logging and oil with its sizable manufacturing sector responsible for contributing products to the global automobile, […]
In the PMG Voice Lab’s first analysis, we put the top voice-enabled technologies to the test to see how their AI capabilities compare, and most importantly, identify what brands can do to optimize their content for voice search. Download your copy of PMG’s voice search white paper, Why Voice Matters: Identifying the Latest Opportunities in Voice […]
There are very few truly global events that captivate an audience on a scale of the FIFA World Cup. The recent Royal Wedding is believed to have had more than 2 billion people tune in from around the world (and even the International Space Station). 2017’s Super Bowl had 111 million viewers and 2014’s World […]
To help searchers better navigate shopping centers and outlet malls, Google added a tab to the local panel named “Directory” which acts as a mall directory for indoor and outdoor shopping centers. It’s important to note that the tab only displays for mobile and tablet local panels in search results, which makes sense seeing as […]
Guest reviews in the accommodations industry remain important, and the marketing opportunities and risks they present have evolved over the last several years. The players in the third-party review space are changing, and the uses for first-party reviews are growing as well. User-Generated Reviews (1st Party Reviews) Reviews that brands collect themselves have historically been […]
A new content feature called Google Posts was officially rolled out late last week by Google to all verified GMB users and rumored to serve as the new way for businesses to share relevant social updates directly on Google Search. By enabling local businesses to create and display content on Google that links to the […]
The ramifications of Amazon’s $13 billion purchase of Whole Foods could fill a shopping cart (yep, I did)–just for starters, they include an immediate brick-and-mortar play for the world’s biggest e-commerce player, a nationwide rollout of its Amazon Go concept (and the consequent threat to a majority of the current Whole Foods workforce), and even faster […]
This might come as a shock to you, but we are 41 days into 2017. That means that 11% of the year is over. It goes by so fast, and if you blinked during that time, you might have missed the following stories that emerged from the realm of Local Search and Local SEO.