This week, Darren Shaw and Claire Carlile are unpacking the local SEO stories you need to know, including:📝 Claiming a Service Area Business (SAB) has changed (Vinay Toshniwal)Request ownership of a Business Profile📝 Why Google Business Profile address changes can disrupt local rankings (Claudia Tomina on Search Engine Land)📝 Who Owns Your Google Business Profile? The Complete Guide to Ownership, Security, Transfers & Recovery (Ben Fisher)📝 AI Overview 6-pack (Joy Hawkins)📝 AI Is Killing Content: The Only Way to Win (Ross Simmonds, SterlingSky)📝 Reddit Keyword Research with Claude: 3 Levels From Beginner to Pro (Usman Akram)

🔥 Whitespark Local Ranking Grids This week, Darren Shaw is joined by special guest Amy Toman to break down the local SEO stories you need to know, including:📝 Hack to Move the Map Pin for an SAB (Mika Lepisto)📝 Warning About GBP Review Management (Amy Toman)📝 AI Search Visibility & Ranking Factors - For 1,100 Market Segments📝 Massive Correlation Study of LLM Ranking Factors (Ben Wills)📝 Google Review Not Posted (Amy Toman)📝 What Local Brand Actually Means to Google and AI (Near Media Podcast with Cyrus Shepard)📝 Two Types of GBP Blocks (Amy Toman): article not yet published.🔥 Whitespark Local Platform

This week, Claire Carlile and special guest Julian Hooks cover the latest local SEO news, including:📝 The State of Local SEO in 2026 (Joy Hawkins, Sterling Sky)📝 Why Your Google Reviews Disappear (Ex-Googlers Explain) (SterlingSky, Brad Wetherall)📝 Where AI agents get stuck on your site (Kevin Indig)📝 New Google Reviews Bug: You Have No Reviews Yet (Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Roundtable)📝 Build your own AI search visibility tracker for under $100/month (Julian Hooks)📝 AI Prioritization Framework for SEOs (Elizabeth Linder)

This week, Claire Carlile is joined by special guest Dayna Lucio to discuss the latest local SEO news and updates, including:📝 See how content from social and video platforms performs on Google Search📝 AI summaries of Tripadvisor hotel reviews downplay serious complaints, investigation finds (Robert Booth)📝 Why TikTok deserves a place in your SEO strategy (Celeste Gonzalez)📝 AI Traffic vs AI Citations: What Clicks and Cited Pages Show About the AI Search Journey (Aleyda Solis)📝 Building a brand worth finding: Signals that fuel discovery (Beth Nunnington)📝 AI Workflows for Local SEO (Amanda Jordan)

This week, Claire Carlile is joined by special guest Krystal Taing to break down the local SEO stories you need to know, including:📝 June 2026 AI Search News (Caroline Green, Carolyn Wilborn)📝 New Gemini Features for Small Businesses | Grow with Google📝 AI's brain is getting bloated with AI content (Megan Morrone)📝 How to safely implement high-impact technical SEO changes (Dayna Lucio)📝 Google AI Overviews Study Finds Lost Clicks Weren’t Lower Quality (Matt G. Southern)📝 AI Performance in Bing Webmaster Tools

🔥 Whitespark Local Ranking Grids 🔥This week, Darren Shaw and Claire Carlile are unpacking the local SEO stories you need to know, including:📝 Connect your Google Business Profile to Gemini📝 The Review Gap: Finding Client Opportunities In Competitor Feedback (Celeste Gonzalez on the Search Engine Journal Blog) 📝 GBP Help pages have been revised (Hiroko Imai)📝 Google is bringing back GBP Messaging - with an AI chatbot for your business (Darren Shaw)

This week on The Whitespark Local Update, Darren Shaw and Claire Carlile break down the latest local SEO news, including:📝 Study: How Review Profiles Impact Brand AI Visibility (Trustpilot and Seer Interactive)📝 This is the AI prompt you need to track and aren't (Wil Reynolds)📝 The Click Is Now Optional. Here’s What Isn’t. (Amanda Natividad)📝 Colorado Banning Lead Gen Companies from Selling Legal Leads to Law Firms (Jason Hennessey)📝 Apple introduces Siri AI (Apple Newsroom)📝 Internal Data Mining and Strategic Review Acquisition (Krystal Taing, Near Media)📝 Social Signals as a Ranking Factor (Michael B. Snow, SOCi)

Local SEO keeps changing with the speed of light, but Claire Carlile and Darren Shaw are here to help you keep up. This week, they cover:📝 AI Search, Speak Your Customer's Language or Be Left Out of the Conversation (Michelle Ali)📝 Connect Google Business Profile to Google Analytics (Google)📝 How to Rank in Surrounding Cities or Towns (Miriam Ellis)📝 Google’s Review Reply Rejection Filter (Michel van Luijtelaar)📝 Chunking Your Content for AI? 1956 Called. They Want Their Method Back (Dorron Shapow)📝 Connect your Google Business Profile to Gemini (Mike G. and Google)

Local search was busy last week. Claire Carlile and Darren Shaw break down what happened, why it matters, and what you should do about it. This week, they cover:📝 Why B2B Is MORE Emotional Than B2C (Amanda Natividad and Talia Wolf)📝 Why Do We Need Zero Click Marketing? (Rand Fishkin)📝 AI Mode + AI Overviews directly in Search Console (Chris Long)📝 Google Business Profile Video Verification Tutorial (Brad Wetherall)📝 How Schema Markup Influences Search and AI (Jake Hundley)📝 The First Edition of The Signal: The AI stuff marketers can't ignore (Wil Reynolds and Alisa Scharf)📝 Schema, LLMs and the Low Bar for “Evidence” in GEO (Mark Williams-Cook)

We are back with another episode of the Whitespark Local Update, where our host Darren Shaw and special guest Celeste Gonzalez discuss:📝 Google Already Knows Everything About You — And Their New AI Features Make It Worse (Near Media)📝 Your Feed Is the Product of a Stealth Marketing Campaign (Lane Brown)📝 Google Maps just got an AI facelift (Claudia Tomina)📝 The new playbook for localized AI search optimization (Darren Shaw)📝 Google Ask Maps: How to optimize for visibility (Rich Sanger)📝 Google Offer Posts are getting more prominence (Michael B. Snow)