Q&A Sessions

We take YOUR local digital marketing questions and answer them during our live Q&A sessions. Each session is archived here and distributed via the LMI podcast.

Local SEO and Marketing Q&A Session with Chase Buckner February 25, 2022

Follow button and welcome offer deprecated, alternatives to Yext, Google rejecting posts, what spam instances are too much trouble, and more!

Local SEO and Marketing Q&A Session January 28, 2022

SAB reinstatement issues fixed, Facebook GMB URL taken over, asking for reviews, new Bright Local statistics, FTC fines, trends for 2022, and more!

Local SEO and Marketing Q&A Session January 14, 2022

New waiting period for GBP, combating vicinity update, why suggestion edits take so long, issues with addresses, proximity updates for SAB and more!

Local SEO and Marketing Institute Q&A Session, December 17, 2021

GMB is now GBP, hotel posts here to stay, vicinity update, issues with GBP, video verification changes, reporting suspensions and more!

Google Local Service Ads Q&A Session with Special Guest Navah Hopkins

GMB Products scrutiny. Turning off GMB messages. Google rewriting Title Tags. GMB Posts on 3rd party sites. Apple Maps changes. LSAs vs Google Ads and more!

Local SEO and Marketing Institue Q&A Session July 23, 2021

Slower Google email support. GMB review enhancements. Why searches rank in Google. Facebook pushing WhatsApp. New Apple Business Register and more!

Local SEO and Marketing Institute Q&A Session July 16, 2021

GMB Chat available again, new app Yelp Audiences, local advertising on TikTok, NextDoor going public, geotagging photos, privacy page resources and more!

Local SEO and Marketing Q&A Session July 9, 2021

Stricter penalties for losing reviews with review gating, showing source in Messages from Posts on GMB, Apple Maps, Syncing Bing with GMB, and more!

Local SEO and Marketing Q&A Session June 25, 2021

Q&A now showing up on GMB searches. Are reviews a ranking factor? Optimizing business for Apple Maps, Schema Markup and more!

Local SEO and Marketing Q&A Session June 18, 2021

How many use Apple Maps? New iOS privacy features, user experience becoming Google ranking factor, GMB Ads and more!
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