Each week, Eric, Jason and Ben answer your questions on digital marketing for local businesses … local search engine optimization (SEO), Google My Business, social media, email marketing, websites, online advertising and more.

• Congratulations to Jason who has reached a Level 10 Local Guide on Google.
• Stricter penalties of losing reviews for review gating.
• Showing the source in Messages from Posts on GMB.
• What are the best strategies for getting customers on Apple maps?
• Apple maps is starting to crack down on Service Area Businesses.
• Facebook ads for unnecessary voice search registration services.
• Why you should care about Bing business listings.
• How you can sync Bing with GMB.
• What are the best practices when it comes to SEO to regularly update images to your GMB listing and website for a restaurant?
• How can I better convert people who visit my GMB page?
• Any success stories from using the Google website feature in GMB?
• How should you work with filtered reviews?
• Is Apple Maps only interested in providing driving directions to brick and mortar type businesses?
• If you start with a GMB website and then create a full website with your own URL, will you lose any SEO benefits you built up?
• Does Google want to see that you’re utilizing the different kinds of posts in your GMB listing?
• What do you think about review throttling in terms of reputation management?

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