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You’re probably already familiar with Google My Business. If you aren’t, as a quick recap, Google My Business is a simple way to claim your office address or storefront on Google. That way, when someone searches for your business, you’ll show up on the right side of a Google search like the image above. Or better yet, when someone searches for a product or service you’ll offer, you’ll show up in the local pack. What’s interesting, though, is Google has been making changes to it, which means it just got easier to generate leads and sales for you. Best of all, very few marketers are even leveraging these features. Welcome Offers What’s one of the easiest ways to generate more sales? By offering discounts and coupons, right? Just think of it this way, if it didn’t work, Cyber Monday wouldn’t bring in $7.8 billion in sales . Google knows that people are looking for ways to save money and find good deals. With this new feature, businesses can reward their customers by givin...

In case you missed it, Google just published advice for SEOs on how to continually do well throughout their algorithm changes . Now, what most people don’t know is Google doesn’t just push out a handful of algorithm changes per year. They publish substantially more. Just to give you an idea of how often Google changes, they had 3,200 algorithm changes in just 1 year . You heard me right, 3,200 changes. That’s a lot! So instead of focusing on one algorithm update that you may read about, you need to focus on making your site compatible with Google’s core goal. First I’ll go over the advice they are telling us all to follow… and then I’ll break down what it really means. Google’s advice to SEOs Just like most of their announcements, Google tends to be vague. But of course, they did mention that you should focus on content. What’s interesting, though, is they did give a list of questions that you should ask yourself with your existing and new content. But as I mentioned they a...