Do These Two Onsite Factors Influence Local Rankings?
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> Google September Core & Product Reviews Updates Both Finished Rolling Out On September 26th
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What we discussed this week…
✔ Google Really Wants You To Avoid Changing URLs Just For SEO Reasons
✔ Google September Core & Product Review Updates Both Finished Rolling Out On September 26th
✔ Google: We Won’t Penalize For Keyword-Stuffed URLs
✔ Google: If You Don’t Know If Your Content Is Expertly Written, Then It Is Not
✔ The Service Area Business bug has been fixed
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Do These Two Onsite Factors Influence Local Rankings?
Hey there, SEO scientists. We are back with a quick update this week on our GBP indexation ranking tests.
We haven’t seen any major movement with the current terms we observed last week that Google clearly pulled from our website.
However, one of the terms that we did have listed as a service on our listing that is not showing any rankings is “website design.”
We wanted to keep it simple and test the two primary locations that Google pulled from for our first original keywords. So we didn’t create an internal page for “website design” in the menu, we just added the text with no link to see if it was the text itself listed in the heading across the site that had any impact.
There are any results, and if we can finally determine the most influential ranking factors on GBP listings.
Until then, Happy testing!
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