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If your foot traffic varies across locations, check your local visibility scores first. The variance almost certainly mirrors your profile quality. Read how the compounding system works: https://t.co/6jhVR4lUKO #LocalMarketing #MultiLocationRetail

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Gemini's local search is citing business websites more than directories. Problem: the same search rarely returns the same sources twice.

This matters because you can't build a strategy around inconsistency. You can't optimize for something that changes every time someone asks.

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A location with 200 reviews earned over 6 months looks different to an AI recommendation engine than one with 200 reviews over 3 years, even at the same star rating. Review recency is underweighted by most brands. #LocalSearch #ReviewManagement

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Apple Maps just opened paid placements to US and Canadian businesses. This is your third major map auction to manage, after Google and potentially others in your region.

#localsearch #mapmarketing

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Local visibility scores predict foot traffic in multi-location retail as reliably as most paid channels. And unlike ad spend, the gains don't stop when the budget does. Full breakdown here: https://t.co/6jhVR4lUKO #LocalSEO #FootTraffic

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Local visibility scores predict foot traffic as well as most paid channels, and the gains compound over time. Paid campaigns stop when the budget stops. A well-maintained local profile does not.

#LocalSEO #FootTraffic #LocalMarketing

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Your customer asks ChatGPT for dinner tonight. Yelp surfaces a competitor. Conversion happens in the conversation, before Google ever matters. Local discovery just moved upstream.

#localdiscovery #localmarketing

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42% of US shoppers now take longer to buy because they're asking AI assistants first. This reveals a trust problem you're solving in the wrong place.

#purchasedecision #trustmarketing

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Before you increase your local ad budget, check your review recency. If your last review is more than three weeks old, that is the first problem to fix. Full breakdown here: https://t.co/OU177xZGCE #LocalSEO #LocalSearch

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Your customer's shopping list just became a media inventory.

Kroger launched an AI assistant that helps shoppers find products. On day one, ads were already built in. Competitors followed the same move. This isn't a convenience layer, it's a new shelf, and it works differently

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A profile with 200 reviews that went quiet reads to Google's algorithm the same way a store with the lights off reads to a pedestrian. One new review per week outranks it. #LocalSearch #ReviewStrategy

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Your Performance Max dashboard is probably lying to you. Not on purpose. Google's system just measures attribution differently than the channels it's replacing.

#performancemax #dtcmarketing

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A competitor with fewer reviews than you is outranking you in local search. Google weights recency as a live signal, not a historical one. Review cadence matters more than review count. #LocalSEO #GoogleReviews

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A competitor with fewer reviews than you is outranking you in local search. Google weights recency, not just volume. A profile that went quiet months ago drifts, regardless of total count.

#LocalSEO #GoogleReviews #LocalSearch

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You've been told TV attribution is for enterprise budgets. That story just changed.

Fox AdStudio now gives every advertiser real-time outcome data on linear and streaming spend through iSpot. No tier. No minimum. The measurement gap that made TV feel like a black box for growth

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Amazon walked away from Google Shopping auctions a year ago and hasn't returned. One day it held 40% of US impression share. Two days later, zero. The same pattern repeated across the UK, Germany, and a dozen other markets within a month.

#ecommerce #shoppingads

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Double conversion rates with an owned shopping tool, not a search algorithm you rent. Michaels launched Ask Mike in May, an AI assistant built into their store experience.

#ecommerce #ownedaudience

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Google just force-migrated your attribution model and you might not know it yet.

By September, every conversion action still running on first-click, linear, time-decay, or position-based attribution gets moved to data-driven attribution, whether you chose it or not. Google