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Unlock the Full Potential of Your Business's Retirement Plan with Langan Financial! As a business owner, offering a top-tier retirement plan can be a game-changer for both your employees and your company’s future. But how can you be sure that your current plan is working in your best interest...

Hi @fredhutterson - you can use promo code FORUM20 at https://localu.org/nashville for our next event! Hope to see you there!

Thanks to GatherUp for Sponsoring our LocalU Webinar on March 19, 2025! Reserve Your Free Seat Here: https://localu.org/webinar-seo-2025-register/ How Reviews Impact Local SEO & Consumer Trust—Key Findings from GatherUp’s Latest Survey If you work with local businesses, you probably already...

Thanks to The Transparency Co for Sponsoring LocalU Global on March, 26, 2025! Get your tickets here: LocalU Global - A Virtual Local Search and SEO Conference- March 26, 2025 Bringing Transparency to Online Reviews with the Transparency Portal At The Transparency Co, we’re redefining how...

Thank you for the Mary mention - I miss working with her so much! I can confirm she is loving the retired life, though! (I also miss doing Last Week in Local like CRAZYYYYY)

LocalU is happy to host the 12th FREE webinar in our 2024 series next month! Be sure to register as Brad Wetherall, a former Director of the GBP product at Google joins Joy to discuss tips and insight into managing your GBP profile and the best way to get assistance from GBP Support! Register...

A huge thanks to Places Scout for continuing their sponsorship of LocalU by joining us in NYC on September 17, 2024! We're thrilled to have such a committed partner helping to uplift and support our local search & SEO community. Places Scout is recognized as the industry standard for conducting...

A big thank you to Specialty Answering Service for sponsoring LocalU in NYC on September 17, 2024! We're excited to have such a dedicated partner supporting our local business community. Are you a small business looking to enhance customer engagement and never miss a lead? Specialty Answering...

We are thrilled to have Wix Studio as our primary sponsor for the Sold Out LocalU event in New York next month! Wix is a great partner for Local SEO and has developed features that local businesses can use to improve their SEO and their conversions! Check out more info from Wix Studio below...

13 speakers—9 sessions—1 day of incredible insights! Get your ticket to BrightLocal’s virtual conference, Local SEO for Good, taking place September 12. Join top speakers in local marketing who will present on all things local, SEO, digital, and more… Speakers include your favorite local SEO...

📅 Date: June 7, 2024 ⏰ Time: 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM (ET) 📍 Location: Online Webinar (Register here) Key Takeaways: In-depth Analysis: Uncover the implications of the recent Google algorithm leak and what it means for your SEO strategy. Expert Insights: Learn from leading SEO experts who will...

Discover how to fix common pitfalls in your lead capture process with expert insights from Aaron Weiche of Leadferno (200+ Lead Forms Analyzed). Is your website failing to convert visitors into leads? You're not alone. Traditional contact forms and email follow-ups might be costing you valuable...

Hi Mike, What is "Google tech"? Google themselves will rarely tell you that X is the specific problem. I do think pruning your blogs, ensuring you have content that adds value to a subject and is unique will help - but I don't really consider that a "crawl budget" issue - more of a "duplicate...

If the "rewritten" urls are "crawled, not indexed" - but have better content - I'd merge the good stuff into the indexed url, redirect the "not indexed" url to the new url and see how that does for a few URLS before I went at this with a chainsaw when you might need a scissor. It may be that...

I doubt "crawl budget" is the issue - there are million page sites that get plenty of "budget" and I doubt this plumber's site is "too big." More than likely - the blog posts are not unique enough from other content Google has found locally or on the web in general, so Google is crawling them...