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Michael Perry
Michael Perry is Digital Storming’s Local SEO Specialist and writes our guides on local SEO, Google Business Profile, Google reviews and showing up in AI Overviews. Every article lists the sources behind its figures, with the date we checked each one.
Articles by Michael Perry
- Local SEOGoogle Business Profile Optimization: A 2026 Step-by-Step GuideGoogle business profile optimization, step by step for 2026: categories, hours, photos, posts, reviews and the rules that get profiles suspended.
- Local SEOHow to Get More Google Reviews Without Breaking Google's RulesHow to get more Google reviews the right way: your review link and QR code, short request scripts, and what Google and the FTC forbid in 2026.
- SEOHow to Rank in AI Overviews and Get Cited by ChatGPT (2026)How to rank in AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT and Perplexity in 2026: what Google says, which crawlers to allow, the llms.txt facts and how to measure it.
- Local SEOLocal SEO Checklist for Small Businesses in 2026A practical local SEO checklist for small businesses: profile basics, service pages, citations, reviews, local links, schema, speed and tracking.
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