This week on The Whitespark Local Update, Darren and Claire break down the latest in local search:

📝 The Future of AI Search (Britney Muller)

📝 Business Loses 800 Reviews for “Asking for Reviews at the Register” (Claudia Tomina)

📝 Report Business Conduct Form

📝 Places Insights in BigQuery is now Generally Available (Google)

📝 Suspensions Are on the Rise (Barry Schwartz)

📝 How Hospitality & Travel Brands Can Win in AI-Driven Search (Koozai)

📝 Template for Self-Auditing Your AI Local Search Visibility (Phil Rozek)

📝 Spin-off Pages: a Bazooka for Your Local SEO (Phil Rozek)

Another week, another local SEO drop from Claire and Darren. This week we’re talking:

📝 AI mode and Gemini are being integrated into Chrome (Chris Long)

📝 Citation Mining Tool for AI SEO (Dan Petrovic)

📝 The Writing is on the Wall for Q&A (Local Search Forum)

📝 AI Comes to GBP: 'Ask Maps About This Place' (NearMedia)

📝 From SEO to AIO: Why Your Content Needs to Exist in AI Training Data (Stephen Burns)

📝 The AI Search Lab Glossary by Wix Studio (Crystal Carter)

📝 SearchPulse AI Reports (Reflectdigital)

Claire and Darren bring you a hand-picked wrap-up of the biggest local SEO stories and fresh insights from last week. On this episode, we dig into:

📝 Local packs in AI Overviews (Anthony Higman)

📝 No more map results in ChatGPT (Matt McGee)

📝 9 Google Business Profile Verification Tips That Will Save Your Sanity (Sterling Sky)

📝 ChatGPT Doesn't Stand a Chance in Local (Claudia Tomina)

📝 Will AI Overviews always be at the top of the SERP? (Tom Capper)

📝 Custom GPT can analyze a negative review and tell you which content policy it violates (Steve Toth)

📝 The 4 types of AI Marketers - AI Minimalists to AI Builders (Wil Reynolds)

Claire and Darren bring you a hand-picked wrap-up of the biggest local SEO stories and fresh insights from last week. On this episode, we dig into:

📝 The Ultimate Guide to Optimizing Your Bing Places Listing (Miriam Ellis)

📝 Blasting a business in the Updates from Customers section

📝 Businessplaining your Google Business Profile Appeal Documents Won’t Work (Tim Capper)

📝 7 Surprising Truths I Learned from Marketing's Sharpest Minds - LocalU Advanced Nashville 2025

📝 Will The Anti-Monopoly Ruling Crack Open Google's Data?

📝Aleyda Solís Telling It Like It Is!

Claire and Darren dive right in with a curated roundup of last week’s top local SEO news and insights you won’t want to miss.

In this episode, we cover:

📝 Want to Rank in ChatGPT? Focus on These Review Sites (New Research)

📝 How to Boost Visibility in AI-Search Through Social – Uberall's Local Marketing Beat with Celeste Gonzalez

📝 Google Business Profiles Links Policies & Guidelines Updated

📝 Can’t find a link to Ikea’s website on a search for “Ikea”

📝 Does LLM Traffic Convert Better Than Organic? A New Data-Backed Study

📝 How to get your service area business verified on Google

📝 Making the Move from Search Optimization to Answer Optimization

📝 Local SEO for Good

Welcome to the very first episode of The Whitespark Local Update Podcast 🎉 Claire and Darren kick things off with this week’s hottest handpicked roundup of must-read and must-watch local SEO news.

In this episode, we cover:

📝 iPullRank’s AI Search Manual

📝 Aimee Jurenka's TL;DR

📝 Dan Petrovic’s deep dive into Chrome’s Semantic Engine

📝 Dan’s schema test with ChatGPT

📝 Chat Clicks in GBP Performance Metrics

📝 The new GBP Posts Dashboard

📝 Whitespark’s Local Ranking Grids

Stay tuned each week for quick, curated updates to keep you ahead in local SEO!