By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways GBP photo quality and freshness is a bigger ranking factor than most owners realize — Google’s 2026 algorithms weight photos heavily for local pack and AI-answer results. 10+ photos in the first month, then 2-3/month ongoing is the pattern that consistently improves local visibility.…
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By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways Small Business Saturday is November 28, 2026, the day after Black Friday. In Longview and surrounding East Texas towns, “shop local” traffic spikes measurably that weekend. Build a real landing page at /small-business-saturday/ — Google needs it indexed a few weeks ahead. Update your…
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By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways AI Overviews now appear on ~40% of Google local queries, and the answer summarizes 3-5 sources instead of showing 10 blue links. Pages that get pulled into AI Overviews share five traits: direct answers up top, real data, clear structure, schema, and authority signals.…
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By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways An Instagram-only business is invisible to Google, AI Overviews, and half the customers looking for you by name. You don’t own your Instagram followers — one algorithm change or one hacked account and you’re back to zero. Instagram is a great top-of-funnel tool, not…
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By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways Contact form spam is worse than ever in 2026, driven by cheap AI form-fillers submitting thousands of fake inquiries. Google reCAPTCHA v3 is losing to AI. Cloudflare Turnstile is the current best free replacement. Honeypot fields catch 60-80% of spam for zero user friction…
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