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  • asserts: For Google Maps, the creator highlights primary category, keyword in business name, and location/proximity as major local factors.

    The 2026 Local Search Ranking factors report has officially been published. This is the closest thing we get to a source of truth for the factors that Google uses to rank businesses and their search results...

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