Local SEO recap: February 2026

The stories about Local SEO from this period, ranked by likely impact on a single site.

2 Stories archived

1 High impact

1 Update-flagged

0 Technical areas

Updates in this period

How Google’s August 2025 Spam Algorithm Update Impacted Local SEO [Case Study] Sterling Sky · 27 Feb

Biggest stories

Ranked by estimated impact on a single site, not by publication time.

High impact Sterling Sky 27 Feb

How Google’s August 2025 Spam Algorithm Update Impacted Local SEO [Case Study]

Ranking & Algorithms Local SEO

Medium Sterling Sky 20 Feb

Google Search Console vs Google Business Profile: Why Your Data Doesn’t Match – A Local SEO Case Study

Local SEO Measurement

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By month

August 2026 292 July 2026 100 June 2026 45 May 2026 37 April 2026 15

This period, by technical area

All areas Ranking & Algorithms SERP Features Paid Search Crawling & Indexing Content & Quality Site Architecture Structured Data Speed & Core Web Vitals Links Local SEO E-commerce Measurement Policy & Penalties AI Search & Visibility International

By week

Week of 24 Aug 2026 143 Week of 17 Aug 2026 61 Week of 10 Aug 2026 32 Week of 3 Aug 2026 55 Week of 27 Jul 2026 35 Week of 20 Jul 2026 16 Week of 13 Jul 2026 31 Week of 6 Jul 2026 11 Week of 29 Jun 2026 11 Week of 15 Jun 2026 10

About these recaps

Assembled from our own archive of 551 stories, which currently runs from 4 October 2023. Ranking is by the impact score described on the front page — an estimate of how much a story is likely to affect one website, not a measure of how much attention it got.

The archive only holds what it has seen. Periods before it started are empty rather than quiet, and it gets more complete every week it runs.