In the internet world, when one website likes content from another and mentions it, they often link to the content as well; this is a backlink. Search engines see this as the linking website...

The answer to this question has changed over the last decade. It used to be any business citation was good, and the more you had, the higher your business ranked in Google Maps. Today, the three...

Ten-plus years ago, all you had to do for your local business to outrank your competitors was to have more business citations online than they had. Today, business citations do impact local...

Ten-plus years ago, if you just had more structured business citations than your local competitors, regardless of the quality of the sites, you out-ranked them in Google Maps. But this is no longer...

A local business citation is simply any time a local business's name, address, and phone number (NAP) information is listed anywhere online. If it is in a social media or directory listing profile,...

First, I want to say that while business citations done properly are still a very important part of local SEO, they are not as important as they once were. It used to be that all you had to do was be...