Google Business Profile: the Q&A is gone, and freshness now counts.
A thirty-day quiet spell on your listing is starting to cost you rankings. The Q&A box is disappearing. Here is what changed and what it means.
A quiet week for hype, a loud week for the tools you actually use. Plus a drought-loan deadline worth fifteen minutes of your Saturday.
Read the ForecastA thirty-day quiet spell on your listing is starting to cost you rankings. The Q&A box is disappearing. Here is what changed and what it means.
If you are paying Microsoft for the $18 Copilot tier, your plan renews at $21 this summer. If you are not, this is not the week to start.
A Federal settlement this spring against a company that sold AI to small businesses with revenue promises. If a vendor guarantees results, the FTC is paying attention.
Low-interest SBA loans for rural Montana businesses hurt by the July 2025 drought. Four percent, up to thirty-year terms, twelve-month payment grace.
One photo, a check on your hours, one new update post, and a reply to one recent review. Free, and it resets the freshness clock.
The structural shift behind this week's Google news. Why the way customers find a local shop is changing under the shop owner's feet.
Still honest about what we will and will not publish. Mark writes this section himself.