Local SEO recap: week of 26 Oct 2026

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

5 Stories archived
0 High impact
0 Update-flagged
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Ranked by estimated impact on a single site, not by publication time.

Medium Search Engine Roundtable

Google Business Profiles AI-Powered Messaging Expands

Google seems to be rolling out access to the Google Business Profile AI-powered messaging feature to more businesses. I believe we covered this in June of this year, but since then, Google made some…

Local SEO

Medium Search Engine Roundtable

Google Business Profiles Adds Facebook Messenger M.me Links

Google is emailing businesses to let them know it is automatically adding Facebook (Meta) Messenger M.me links to their Google Business Profile. I don't think I've seen Google add m.me links to a…

Local SEO

Medium Search Engine Roundtable

Bing Tests Get Phone Number & QR Code To Scan

Microsoft Bing is testing adding a phone icon to the local pack on desktop, when you click on the phone button, it has a scan to call QR code with the phone number listed out. Google did this back in…

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Assembled from our own archive of 1,108 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.