Why generic city pages no longer help your map ranking

Why generic city pages no longer help your map ranking

The death of broad city signals Local relevance now depends on neighborhood-level engagement and proximity signals. Google ignores generic city pages because they lack geospatial specificity. Hyper-local content and entity validation are the new requirements for appearing in the Map Pack. I spent three months fighting a hard suspension for a plumbing client whose listing … Read more

Why your service-area business is invisible in the next town over

Why your service-area business is invisible in the next town over

Why your service-area business is invisible in the next town over Service area visibility depends on a mixture of GPS proximity signals, local relevance markers, and verified service polygons that Google uses to determine where a business actually operates. I spent three months fighting a hard suspension for a plumbing client whose listing was nuked … Read more