Every Major Local SEO Update You Missed

Did you know about this “Spam & review bombing – reported to Google” tag under suspicious Google Reviews? 👇️

Apparently, it can appear when a business owner reports a review as spam. Miriam Ellis talks about this discovery by Elizabeth Rule and 16 other new local SEO developments in her Q4 2025 Roundup.

You can’t do effective local SEO in 2026 if you’re not caught up on everything that happened in the last 3 months, like:

• Revamped verification issue options in GBP Support forms

• New Report business conduct form

• Review extortion guidelines

• Anonymous reviews

• AI Agents’ increasing popularity

• Google removing GBP Q&A and Call buttons

• and more!

Read the full Q4 2025 Roundup here 👇️

Darren

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