{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Whitespark Local Update","title":"Stop the AI Slop, Claude Research Assistant & New GBP Verification | E48 The Whitespark Local Update","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/62d8a401\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1218,"description":"Darren Shaw and Claire Carlile break down the biggest local SEO, Google, and AI search updates from the past week, including:\n📝 Google Business Profile Verification: Submit a Business Photo (Ben Fisher)\n📝 Claude Project for Improving Information Gain for SEO (Steve Toth)\n📝 The new rules of AI search (Crystal Carter)\n📝 Study: How Keywords in Business Names Currently Impact Google Local Pack Rank and AI Search (Miriam Ellis)\n📝 Has excessive use of AI slop knocked us back to an “anti-digital” age? (iPullRank newsletter, Carly Stoenner)\nSign up here\n📝 We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’ (Jason Koebler)\n📝 Side of slop? Bizarre AI food images jump from online to IRL menus (NBC News)\n📝 Google is now asking about edits BEFORE they go live (Claudia Tomina)","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/mAqjtfoqdTRK3C6rpFPBwUThbpMKrLEzQ_pXoPCcUWI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lMTNk/YjlmNjIyMjUyNzE5/ZTRiZWI0MGRiOWJi/YjYxNC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}