When your customer base is small, you can be exceptionally responsive to the needs and desires of those customers. But what about when the goal is active growth? Your website acts as a natural extension of word of mouth (not a substitute for it). [Read Full Article]

Small business owners: learn timely, actionable ways to improve your visibility, acquire new prospects, and broaden your business's reach. Improve your digital presence and thus your bottom line. [Read Full Article]

Here are the 10 top fast-food restaurant brands in the United States:   1. Subway [Read Full Article]

In February, Darren Shaw of Whitespark presented the much anticipated Local Search Ranking Factors (2017) at a Local U workshop. Let us break it down into the executive summary you need to run it up the chain. [Read Full Article]

You're a creative. Musician, writer, visual artist or actor who's trying to break out in your industry. You have passion, a stack of business cards, an awesome website and a manager, but there's one more thing you should consider adding to your list of many talents: basic SEO knowledge. [Read Full Article]

Outside of Yelp (whose review snippets were removed from Google) and native Google+ Local reviews, here are the top third-party sources for dentist reviews in the US. [Read Full Article]

Common Issue: Your Google Places listing was verified by an ex-employee or SEO company and you would like to get control back from them but you've been unable to, perhaps because of a lost password or falling out. [Read Full Article]

Receive a call that lead you believe it was Google and your listing was in danger? It is safe to ignore. [Read Full Article]