Dan Leibson

10:29 am PDT update Alright, well I have some news! First of all as we get later in the day I’m going to start segmenting out a seed keyword list of state and congressional election results so we can track what is...

Hi friends, it’s me Dan. Your friendly SEO curmudgeon in training. Recently the SEO community (cough cough, SEO Twitter) has been caught up in a veritable tizzy about knowing HTML. Beyond the obvious epistemological...

Hey everyone! It’s been a hot minute since I posted so just wanted to quickly come in here and share an update we made to a free tool. A while back we released a tool that would allow you to aggregate Lighthouse...

What a week. What a year. Not sure about the rest of you but around these parts SEO doesn’t seem so relevant right now. The country is in the midst of some deep soul searching brought on by a fierce and rapid grass...

Here I am, back on my BS again… So today we are open sourcing the first thing that Bryan and I made together when he came to Local SEO Guide two years ago (he did all the hard work.) It’s an image change detection...

For years, there has been a relatively deafening klaxon in SEO:MOBILE SEARCH IS THE FUTURE This is not hyperbole. Here are some choice examples. First up, the top of this mobile SEO guide: And here is just one of...

Goddamnit Dan, stop making our lives harder!Sorry, you feel that way, random internet person, but hopefully, this post makes your lives easier!Anyway, this tweet by friend of the show John-Henry Scherck got me...

WTF Dan? I can’t even say that title, it’s a mouthful! Sorry, random internet stranger but it sounds smart! Anyways, performance reporting is good for SEO right? Speed is a critical ranking factor, it’s good for...

Local search expert Dan Leibson offers advice on how to manage GMB profiles and why it’s important to implement a meaningful review system. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

We got the opportunity to expand the organic program we have with a Big Baller Brand ™. This always makes me giddy, as I think local organic search is one of the places where we excel. Turns out, I was right to...

Wow, really waiting until the last minute to get this one out huh Dan? You betcha random voice from the internet. Literally the last calendared work day for Local SEO Guide from the year and here we are. And there is a...

Hey friends! I’m way over-invested in rare beer and underinvested in giving back to the SEO community (aren’t we all?). There has been a lot of tweetin’ and discussin’ about forum/comment links lately. Do they...

Seriously Google Search Console, why do you do this to me? I want to like (trust) you, despite the historically numerous discrepancies in your data. I’m delighted you are addressing the feature lag that SEO’s love...

So for those of you don’t know, I have a 3-year-old daughter (her name is Harper). Here is her hand: When she was an even littler girl then she is now, she got pink eye. Bekah and I spent a bunch of time googling and...

Since local spam is a hot topic around the Local SEO Sphere these days, I figured it would be fun to look at brands that are violating the Google My Business guidelines for representing your business and getting away...

Whoa, Dan! How did you get a time machine back to the late 90’s to show us this rockin’ GeoCities site (personally, I was an AngelFire guy)? Well, easily surprised reader you are wrong! This is slammin’ retro...

Woke up this morning to see that Dixon Jones, who runs marketing for Majestic, will be transitioning out of his role and into retirement. Majestic has long proven itself to be a top shelf (maybe even THE top shelf, but...

Do I have your attention now? Sweet! I’m happy to announce that we just updated our Local SEO Ranking Factors! This year we really expanded the data set of the study. We looked at the 150 largest metro’s in the US...

Then come check out my session at SMX East On Tuesday, I’m going to go over what the data truly says about ranking in local pack results. Do you need to focus on link building?  Is there even such a thing as a...

This is a screenshot for the search term “vegan food.” I have put red boxes around the distance from search aka proximity of each of the three results in the local pack for that search term. These businesses are in...

Voice search is all the rage. To hear it from a marketing or search technologist, the voice search revolution is on us. Lowering barriers to access and radically changing the way we interact with devices. There is only...