By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways Ninth Avenue Foods is breaking ground on a $76 million Longview facility and bringing roughly 150 jobs to the area. 150 new commutes reshape the neighborhood. Lunch spots, coffee shops, day care, dry cleaners, gyms, oil-change places — all get a new pool of…
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By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways The Google Business Profile Services section is prime real estate — and most East Texas businesses leave it blank or use one-word entries. Every service you sell should be there as its own entry, with a real 1–3 sentence description. Descriptions cannot be spam.…
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By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways One giant “Services” page is a wasted page. It ranks for nothing, converts for nothing, and tells Google nothing specific. Every distinct service deserves its own page — a real URL, a real headline, a real answer. AI Overviews cite pages that answer one…
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By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways Google’s 2026 review policy banned the most common review-getting tactics: review gating, asking customers to name staff, and on-premises pressure. The compliant approach still works. Ask everyone, ask politely, ask once, then once more, then stop. Quantity matters less than recency. Twelve recent reviews…
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By Dakota Hagler, web designer at HaglerDesigns (Longview, TX) Key takeaways Schema markup is invisible code that tells search engines exactly who you are and what you do. Humans don’t see it; AI does. LocalBusiness schema is now a “structural trust layer” — required, not optional, for serious local visibility in 2026. It’s how Google,…
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