Local SEO Guides & Tips
Local SEO·November 6, 2026·
Octavian Ciorici·11 min readNAP Consistency: We Checked 1,718 Businesses | GBP SEO Tools
NAP consistency means your business name, address and phone number read the same everywhere they appear: your website, your Google Business Profile and every listing that names you. We wanted to know how often that's actually true. So we compared 1,718 local businesses in 10 US cities with their own Google profiles.
Local SEO·November 5, 2026·Octavian Ciorici·19 min readGet ChatGPT to Recommend Your Business | GBP SEO Tools
Ranking first on Google Maps won't make ChatGPT name you. We asked ChatGPT's model 50 local questions with web search off, such as "I need a plumber in Denver. ", and it didn't name the Maps #1 once. 49 of its 50 answers skipped the whole Maps top 3.
Google Business Profile·November 4, 2026·Octavian Ciorici·15 min readHow to Change Business Hours on Google | GBP SEO Tools
To change business hours on Google, sign in to the account that manages your Business Profile, search your business name on Google or open it in Google Maps, select Edit profile, then Hours, set each day and save. Holidays don't go there.
Google Business Profile·October 31, 2026·Octavian Ciorici·10 min readDo Google Business Profile Posts Matter? | GBP SEO Tools
Google Business Profile posts still matter, but not for the reason most guides give: across 400 businesses in 20 Google Maps searches, the top 3 posted no more often than businesses on page two. Posting every week didn't buy a top spot, and 4 of the 20 #1 businesses had no posts at all.
Google Business Profile·October 30, 2026·Octavian Ciorici·11 min readGoogle Review Management: 5,713 Reviews Read | GBP SEO Tools
Half of the angry Google reviews we read never got a reply: 192 of 393 one- and two-star reviews, at businesses already in Google's top 20 map results. That's the gap Google review management is meant to close: seeing each review as it lands, answering unhappy customers first, and replying like a person who read what they wrote.
Google Business Profile·October 25, 2026·Octavian Ciorici·12 min readHow to Manage Your Google Business Profile | GBP SEO Tools
To manage your Google Business Profile well, you need about 10 minutes a week: reply to every new review, publish one post, and check whether Google changed anything on your listing. Add a one-minute daily look at new reviews and a 20-minute monthly check of photos, hours and your numbers, and the profile stays current all year.
Local SEO·October 22, 2026·Octavian Ciorici·12 min readHow to Rank Higher on Google Maps (Our Data) | GBP SEO Tools
How to rank higher on Google Maps beyond your own block comes down to beating closer competitors on relevance and reputation, because distance alone hands most of the map to someone else.
Local SEO·October 19, 2026·Octavian Ciorici·12 min readAsk Maps: How Google's AI Picks Businesses | GBP SEO Tools
Ask Maps, the Gemini assistant inside Google Maps, rarely recommends the businesses that rank in the Maps top three: in 20 real questions we asked it in Denver and Austin, only 5 of the 110 businesses it named were in the top three for the main keyword.
Google Business Profile·October 17, 2026·Octavian Ciorici·15 min readHow to Get More Google Reviews (2026 Data) | GBP SEO Tools
The way to get more Google reviews is to ask every customer, right after the job is done, with a link that opens your review box in one tap. Then keep asking every week instead of in bursts. That's how to get more Google reviews without breaking Google's rules or wearing out your customers.