Recommended blogs and sites about local seo
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HI.
Can you please tell me some great blogs/sites to read daily about local seo? I'm really wanting to beef up my knowledge in this area to assist local businesses.Corn
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Aw, thanks, EGOL
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Hey Corn!
Most Local SEO publications don't publish daily, but here's one that does almost every day:
Now, beyond this, here's a short list of many of the sources I check every week for possible posts:
http://www.blumenthals.com/blog (Mike Blumenthal is widely considered one of the best Local SEOs on the planet)
http://www.localvisibilitysystem.com/blog/ (Phil Rozek writes some of the very best Local SEO tutorials you'll ever read and is a prolific blogger)
http://www.localsearchforum.com/ (Linda Buquet's one-of-a-kind, prodigiously active forum)
http://www.whitespark.ca/blog (When Darren Shaw or his partners post, totally must-read)
http://screenwerk.com (Valuable industry insights from Greg Sterling)
https://moz.com/blog/category/local-seo (Here's the Local SEO category of the Moz Blog)
https://moz.com/ugc/category/local-seo (Here's the Local category of the YouMoz Blog)
http://localu.org/blog/ (Not updated frequently, but when it is, the authors and posts are excellent)
http://searchengineland.com/library/channel/local (Here's the local column of Search Engine Land)
https://moz.com/learn/local (On this page, you'll find the signup for the Moz Local 7 Pack - a free monthly newsletter highlighting our take on the 7 best Local stories each month)
http://www.localsearchassociation.org/main/blog.aspx (I've noticed some good posts from these folks lately and the blog seems pretty actively updated)
That should get you started. I further recommend that you follow some of the above folks on Twitter, in case they are surfacing things on other blogs worth reading. Hope this helps!
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Hi Cornelius, in addition to studying everything Miriam Ellis writes about Local SEO on The Moz Blog, I recommend subscribing to Mike Blumenthal's blog and Local University.
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Hi,
Yo can also check @ The Top 10 Online Resources That Will Help You Become a Local SEO Expert
Hope this helps you.
Thanks
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Read the answers to questions here that are given by Miriam Ellis. Find lots of her postings in this SERP.
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