Apple has announced new insights and analytics to Apple Business Connect, its local business dashboard. The new insights are called “Peer Group Benchmarks” and tell you how well your business is doing compared to similar businesses in Apple Maps. Apple emailed me a promotion email about this, saying, “Curious how your business compares to other […]
In North America, autumn means several things—kids going back to school, cooler temperatures, and pumpkin spice everything! It’s also the time Apple introduces its new products and hosts its software showcase. This year, Apple introduced to us a new iPhone, updated products, and iOS 17, the newest version of their mobile operating system. iOS 15 […]
In part one with Lance Bachmann, we spoke a lot about business, growing a business and his passion for his employees. Then in part two we spoke about local SEO and how to get new customers, the right customers. Then in part three, we go more into how local search and search is changing. We […]
After years of development, Apple has today unveiled the first iteration of its AR glasses – which is essentially a Meta Quest unit, minus VR. Apple’s first step into mixed reality is called the Vision Pro, which will incorporate a range of potential use cases. As outlined in the video, Apple’s touting this as a […]
Did you know that (1) over 50% of the Google search business goes through an Apple device and (2) Google also gives Apple a share of the Chrome iOS (and Mac) revenue as well? Danny Goodwin at Search Engine Land covered a report from The Register that says both these nuggets, plus more. A court […]
This week, the December 2022 Google helpful content update and link spam updates are finally complete after a long, long wait. There was a lot of movement on Wednesday, January 11th or so. Google said rolling out algorithm updates are sometimes like planting seeds in a garden. Google said linking to multiple sellers may give […]
apple has reannounced its toolset for businesses to manage their business listings on Apple Maps. It is now called Apple Business Connect, previously named Apple Places and before that Apple Maps Connect. Apple said this updated (or they say new) tool “allows businesses of all sizes to claim their location place cards and customize the […]
This week, we learned that Google’s Panda update at one point in time evolved into what was called the Google Coati update. Google also had another weekend update last week. Google Search Console added a new shopping tab with more streamlined Merchant Center integration. Google said they now recommend dots over commas for review snippet […]
If you have a deadline approaching, you may find so many distractions. The good news is that specialized music apps promise to help you focus if you put on your headphones and listen. However, if you already subscribe to a music streaming service like Apple Music, you may already have hours of focus music available. […]
Apple… you love it or you hate it. But you can’t deny that they are keeping up with the current marketing trends. The company has always expressed itself with beautiful marketing campaigns, not only by the messaging, colors and images, but with the whole offline and online experience. Last September 7th, the California Based company […]