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Local SEO: Get Found By Customers In Your Area Local SEO is the work that puts your business in front of nearby customers when they're searching for what you offer. Without it, those customers call your competitors instead. Local [...]
A website that looks good and a website that generates leads are not the same thing. The gap between the two is usually a handful of specific, fixable issues that are easy to miss when you are close to your own business.
This is one of the most common conversations we have. A business owner hired an agency, paid for months, sat through calls, received reports - and their pipeline has not moved. Here are the five signs something is genuinely wrong.
Faced with widespread public negativity toward insurers, a leading comparison site partnered with Belmore Digital to navigate social backlash. JB delivered a sentiment-driven strategy, empathetic response plans, and platform-specific insights—helping the brand engage confidently, defuse criticism, and rebuild trust on social media.
When a social media crisis hits, the worst thing you can do is freeze. You can’t control what people say online — but you can control how you respond. And that makes all the difference. This guide breaks down how to prepare, respond fast, and rebuild trust without scrambling under pressure.
Tired of gimmicks and short-term wins? Ethical marketing builds trust, earns loyalty, and delivers results that last. This guide covers how to stay transparent, avoid clickbait, and create content your audience actually values.
Struggling to attract local customers? Hyper-local SEO is the key to putting your business on the map—literally. From optimising your Google Business Profile to targeting hyper-local keywords, this guide breaks down the essential strategies to boost your visibility in local search results.
Your online reputation can make or break your business. Our guide provides essential strategies for monitoring mentions, responding to feedback, managing crises, and building trust. Learn how to safeguard your brand’s image and keep your reputation strong.
It didn’t take 5 months to write this week’s digital update! 📣 ✅ Meta Built Threads in 5 Months - What Were They Doing?; ✅ Google’s Reviews Update Here But Now Going Dark; ✅ Amazon in the FTC Naughty Corner this week; ✅ Google Ads Gives You Full Funnel Options - Use Them; ✅ And remember that email automations are an easy win for CRM. 🌟All that wrapped up in a handy blog post by me, your wise, wizened, JB ;-) Read on and enjoy! 🌟
Some JB updates to kick February off in style: Google is ditching Optimize, it may be rolling functionality into GA4, Zuck is becoming Mr Efficiency, Ads add Negatives at Account Level, Local Reviews are important (and not), Short Form Video is where it's at for 2023. You'd better believe it baby.
What a year this has been! 2022 is coming to an end and that means everybody in the entire world has to forecast the important trends for next year. Yours truly included. Want to know ours? Of course you do. Read them here.
What’s this about Direct Links to Google Reviews? I absolutely love this little hack for generating a direct link for customers to review your business on Google. This is useful for businesses large and small – you should use it now. Without stepping into the [...]
Honestly, you wait ages for a major SEO Ranking Factors study and then two come along at once: this one is a good one on Local SEO Ranking Factors. Somewhat unsurprisingly, it finds that Reviews (and websites!) are the most important local SEO Ranking Factors. It's not quite as contentious as another recent study... Read more in this extract from TWIS SEO News & Updates w/e 17th November 2017. #SEO #SEONews #LocalSEO #Reviews #RankingFactors
I'm really not sure about Yelp's hardline stance on review solicitation. I think it runs the risk of causing honest operators to sink down the Yelp listings, wile letting the spammers surf the line between right and wrong. If you are a local business soliciting Yelp reviews, you'd better be aware of this development. Read more in this extract from TWIS SEO News & Updates w/e 10th November 2017. #SEO #SEONews #Reviews #Yelp #FakeReviews #LocalSearch
I think this week's SEO News & Updates make for good reading. Enjoy the in-depth analysis and insights on the following topics: News Publishers Get New Google Knowledge Panel; Yelp Review Solicitation; You can now tweeeeet 280 characters; Few strong pages better than many weak ones?; No need to disavow links - issue 475; As well as some exceptionally fabulous SEO Bits & Pieces. #SEO #SEONews #KnowledgePanels #Yelp #Reviews #Twitter #ContentStrategy #LinkDisavowal
Click here to read about the structured data spam manual actions Google has been issuing, and what you can do to recover, if you have been affected. Contact me if you would like to discuss implementing structured data properly on your website to maximise exposure in search (or recover from a spam manual action). #SEO #StructuredData #WebSpam #GooglePenalties #Reviews
Read this thought-piece to get an understanding of the changes in Local SEO in 2017, how it is getting slightly creepy, and how it's really starting to connect with social. #SEO #LocalSEO #Reviews #SoLoMo
Read actionable insights about Yelp converting better than Google or Facebook and how to ensure you're in the right places to be seen and clicked on. #SEO #LinkBuilding #StarRatings #Conversions #Revenue
