Claire and Darren bring you a hand-picked wrap-up of the biggest local SEO stories and fresh insights from last week. On this episode, we dig into:

📝 The Ultimate Guide to Optimizing Your Bing Places Listing (Miriam Ellis)

📝 Blasting a business in the Updates from Customers section

📝 Businessplaining your Google Business Profile Appeal Documents Won’t Work (Tim Capper)

📝 7 Surprising Truths I Learned from Marketing's Sharpest Minds - LocalU Advanced Nashville 2025

📝 Will The Anti-Monopoly Ruling Crack Open Google's Data?

📝Aleyda Solís Telling It Like It Is!

Claire and Darren dive right in with a curated roundup of last week’s top local SEO news and insights you won’t want to miss.

In this episode, we cover:

📝 Want to Rank in ChatGPT? Focus on These Review Sites (New Research)

📝 How to Boost Visibility in AI-Search Through Social – Uberall's Local Marketing Beat with Celeste Gonzalez

📝 Google Business Profiles Links Policies & Guidelines Updated

📝 Can’t find a link to Ikea’s website on a search for “Ikea”

📝 Does LLM Traffic Convert Better Than Organic? A New Data-Backed Study

📝 How to get your service area business verified on Google

📝 Making the Move from Search Optimization to Answer Optimization

📝 Local SEO for Good

Welcome to the very first episode of The Whitespark Local Update Podcast 🎉 Claire and Darren kick things off with this week’s hottest handpicked roundup of must-read and must-watch local SEO news.

In this episode, we cover:

📝 iPullRank’s AI Search Manual

📝 Aimee Jurenka's TL;DR

📝 Dan Petrovic’s deep dive into Chrome’s Semantic Engine

📝 Dan’s schema test with ChatGPT

📝 Chat Clicks in GBP Performance Metrics

📝 The new GBP Posts Dashboard

📝 Whitespark’s Local Ranking Grids

Stay tuned each week for quick, curated updates to keep you ahead in local SEO!