Hey team, I hope everyone is doing well! Keen to hear everyone's insights into how they're handling the rollout of AI search for local SEO, I know that Local is probably going to be the least affected by these changes - but keen to hear how everyone is tackling it? We've been working on - Schema Stacking: Creating interlinked schema with "knowsabout" "sameas" etc and linking it with different entities - Get more domains referencing the same entities for entity understanding - Making voice search based schema - Creating topical authority content silos w/ long tail keywords - FAQ structured blocks on every page that is hyper relevant to the location and service - Sharpen up photo & video content on pages for multimodal support - Hammer down more on reputation management - Consistent citations and PR's Keen to hear how how everyone else is tackling, and If we're doing anything wrong Thanks team!

Hey there, This might be the most important post you've read in the last year. There’s a massive shift happening right now in local search — and most agencies and business owners have no clue it’s already affecting them. It’s not just about Maps rankings or website traffic anymore. That was the last game. The new game? AI-driven platforms — like ChatGPT, Google’s AI Overviews, Perplexity, and Alexa — are now answering people’s local questions directly… ...without showing your website. ...without showing your map listing. This is what’s called a zero-click search — and it’s exploding. And not just on Google, but directly in chat bots. Soon, most people will only get their answers inside a chat bot. No one clicks. No one visits. They just read the answer and move on. The Big Fat Problem: If your business — or your client’s — isn’t showing up in those answers, you're gone. No clicks. No calls. No visibility. Just… missing from the conversation entirely. And here’s the kicker — you won’t even realize it’s happening. Your rankings might still look fine. Your site traffic might not tank. But leads will slow down. Clients will start asking questions. And you’ll have no idea why. This is exactly like the Maps vs Organic wake-up call back in 2016 or so, but now it’s happening across every modern search surface — and it’s spreading fast. We’ve been thinking about putting together a low cost training that shows what’s really going on here — and how to fix it before it’s too late. If we did that, would you want to see it? Just hit reply and say “interested” if this sounds like something we should put together. Warmly, Brian and Mike Maps Liftoff Team

Hey team, has anyone played around with adding product schema onto pages to have the review rating pop up in search, Instead of review schema? I'm currently going through all the schema structuring video between fulfilment , but keen to hear thoughts on this, thanks!

Hey everyone, I hope you guys are doing well, we're currently setting up a automation for bulk making location service pages and then uploading them using WP All Import w/ ACF Fields What I'm wondering is with ACF fields we need to nest them under a post type eg /locations/auckland - we have a custom bit of code to make them flat, but just wondering if it's even worth the effort / could impact crawlability What are your guys suggestions for slugs for say a plumber, what's best for keyword relevance and crawlability 1. /plumber-auckland 2. locations/auckland 3. locations/plumber-auckland Thanks team!

Consesus on adding products to a plumbers GMB with the location that links page to a location page Example: Creating a product for "Plumber - Auckland" writing a description and then having it link out to /locations/auckland