Data shows AI assistants recommend only 1% to 11% of locations, revealing a massive gap between Google rankings and AI visibility.

Google won’t rank what it can’t confidently identify. See how business names and primary categories determine local search eligibility.

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In my nearly two decades helping businesses navigate local search, I’ve seen a lot of trends come and go. But what’s happening in 2025 signals a potential breakdown of the old local SEO model. And if ...

This post was sponsored by DAC. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. The new reality of Search and brand discovery requires an Enterprise-to-Local strategy. Traditional ...

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Yelp has filed a lawsuit against Google over the company’s dominance in local search results, calling it the “largest information gatekeeper in existence.” In a blog post, Yelp details its reasoning ...

"Google is a monopolist." Those were the words written by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta earlier this month in his landmark ruling against the search giant in the antitrust case brought to the court ...

There are reports of a major local search ranking change with Google Maps and Local Search results. The reports of this local search algorithm update started to funnel in over the weekend, with some ...