How To: Clean Up Incorrect Listings and Increase Your Rankings

If your Google listing is claimed and verified, but you still aren’t climbing the rankings like you had hoped you would, it may be duplicate or incorrect listings around the web that are holding you back. Cleaning up these listings … Continue reading

Top 5 Ways Local SEO Helps Small Businesses

Local SEO is very beneficial to small businesses, however many have yet to claim and verify their Google+ Local, Yahoo Local and Bing Local company pages. If you are a local business that has not dipped a toe in the … Continue reading

Local Splash CEO, Steve Yeich Speaks at BIA/Kelsey’s SMB Digital Marketing Conference in Chicago

Local Splash CEO, Steve Yeich, spoke this morning with Andrew Shotland, Principal of Local SEO Guide, at BIA/Kelsey’s SMB Digital Marketing Conference. The two spoke about the value of local SEO for SMB’s. Shotland gave an update on what’s happening with … Continue reading

How to Determine Whether a Google+ Local Page Has Been Claimed and Verified

Ever since Google made the transition from Google Places to Google+ Local it’s been hard to determine whether a business page has been claimed and verified. Local Splash’s tech team looked into this and discovered how to tell if a … Continue reading

5 Local Search Tips to Start Using Today

Local search matters. According to Google, 97% of consumers search for local businesses online. A study by comScore stated that 61% of searchers consider local search results to be more relevant and 58% think they’re more trustworthy. Eyetrack studies prove … Continue reading

Google Updates Its Search Algorithm to Punish Copyright Violators

Google recently updated its search algorithm to take into consideration the number of valid copyright removal notices it receives for any given site. Websites with high numbers of removal notices may appear lower in Google results, according to a post … Continue reading

Gmail Will Be Integrated in Google Search Results

According to Search Engine Land, Google just announced this morning that they will be including emails from Gmail in search results. Users will be able to search Google and find relevant emails and shared links from their Gmail account directly … Continue reading