Observations from building ranking, reputation, and review systems for local service businesses — the patterns that work, the experiments that didn't, and the shifts we see in Google, GBP, and the review ecosystem.
Fresh perspectives on local rankings, review collection, and field-team productivity.
Google won't email you when they decide your business is spam. There's no notification. No warning shot across the bow. No "Hey, we noticed you've posted the same message 147 times this month—maybe dial it back?"
Read more →We’re announcing a brand-new AI-powered ServiceTitan integration for Nearby Now that automatically converts completed jobs into polished, public-ready Nearby Now checkins — with zero technician input
Read more →Today, we’re thrilled to announce our new Drop-In Widget, a game-changing tool that makes it easier than ever to showcase your reviews, service areas, and customer engagement on any website.
Read more →Our review request platform now allows you to attach photos from a customer's recent service directly to the review request email.
Read more →We're excited to announce our latest integration—this time with Jobber, one of the most trusted platforms for managing home service businesses.
Read more →Nearby Now AI automatically summarizes your recent reviews!
Read more →Get all the ranking and reputation benefits of Nearby Now without ever leaving Housecall Pro!
Read more →Computer vision image object detection powers even better SEO and improved privacy!
Read more →Easier, faster, and better with Nearby Now AI
Read more →We are proud to announce that in an industry first, we have brought **Interactive GeoGrids** to your mobile device!
Read more →Rank Tracking enables you to setup organic search tracking for your business, using any location you choose as the search origin. Each keyword you create will automatically begin tracking how your business ranks in Google organic search on a weekly basis.
Read more →Agencies can now share Prospect GeoGrids directly with their prospects in an online report.
Read more →We are proud to announce our launch of Agency Prospect GeoGrids to provide Nearby Now resellers the power of Google Maps grid ranking analysis. To power up sales, to power up onboarding, and power up prospecting.
Read more →We are proud to announce the launch of GeoGrids from Nearby Now!
Read more →This report provides a simple view of any new cities that have appeared for the first time in your checkin and review locations during the period you define.
Read more →We are proud to announce that you can now request reviews via QR code when you checkin through our mobile apps.
Read more →We are proud to announce a top-down redesign of the Nearby Now admin website for our white label partners and the ability for you to add your own CSS to change the look and feel of the experience for your white label clients.
Read more →We are proud to announce we’ve updated our X (formerly Twitter) integration to adapt to changes in X’s API.
Read more →We are proud to announce a top-down redesign of the Nearby Now admin website. Optimized for performance. Optimized for ease of use. Optimized for the future.
Read more →We are proud to announce the latest version of our WordPress plugin and our content display API, rewritten from the ground up for optimal performance and flexibility in your site integration.
Read more →We are proud to announce two new dashboards for your reviews, one for Google Business Profile reviews, and the other for Nearby Now reviews.
Read more →We are proud to announce the most comprehensive suite of Google Business Profile metrics available anywhere outside of Google itself.
Read more →We are proud to announce a refresh of the Nearby Now review form, designed to maintain our industry-leading 40% average response rate while bringing potential reviewers even easier access to information about your company and the employee who provided service.
Read more →We are proud to announce two great new location intelligence features to help you understand your team’s routing throughout the day.
Read more →We are proud to announce our new automated checkin and review request smart reminders. Sit back knowing your team will be prompted if they forget to checkin, including a recommendation to include any photo that was taken at the job location.
Read more →We are proud to announce our new BizReal Google Business Profile post auto-poster and our new Google post scheduler for Nearby Now subscribers.
Read more →We are proud to announce yet another Nearby Now first in helping you get the most local ranking and reputation value from your great customer reviews.
Read more →We are proud to announce a simple way for you to convert even more of your customer review opportunities to exactly the right Google Business Profiles for each of your locations.
Read more →We are proud to announce a powerful new feature to help you get the most out of your SEO and online reputation.
Read more →Hot on the heels of reporting sharing, you can now save any report that you’ve executed! As an agency, you have three options for saving a report.
Read more →We are excited to announce that push notifications for iOS and Android are now live and are rolling out to the App Stores.
Read more →We’ve launched two new reporting features that we think you and your clients will love! One-Click Report Sharing and One-Click PDF Downloads!
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