Claire Carlile and Darren Shaw are back with another episode of the Whitespark Local Update. In this one, they talk about:

📝 Google Just Elevated Text Messaging to a Primary Conversion Action (Aaron Weiche)

🔥 Leadferno: https://leadferno.com/

📝 Your guide to local search in the age of AI (Amanda Jordan, Wix Studio)

📝 Ask Maps inside the Google Maps app just got a lot more personal (Claudia Tomina)

📝 How To Contact Support When Your GBP Edit Is Rejected (Stefan Somborac on the Local Search Forum)

📝 Video editing features in Google Maps (Valentina Vasileva)

📝 You can add captions to photos directly while uploading them in the GBP dashboard (Valentina Vasileva)

📝 Can AI responses be influenced? The SEO industry is trying (Mia Sato)

📝 The people who ruined the internet (Amanda Chicago Lewis)