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Claudia Tamina has published an article on Search Engine Land called if your local rankings are off your map pin may be the reason I Learned a couple things in this article that I hadn't thought of before the first one is the suite numbers in the address 1 field it's very interesting and she points this out those have to go in like floor building any like little modifiers they have to go
in address too and the reason for that is that Google GEO locates based on what you put into the address 1 field so we put a whole bunch of extra weird stuff in there Google system sometimes can't figure out what that is and then it messes up where Google places your GEO like your GEO coordinates your map pin and so that's interesting I didn't actually think about that before well I
always knew it's best practice to put sweet number in address to field but this is the reason as like don't mess with it cause you can actually screw up your ranking significantly
Local visibility depends on Google Business Profile and local ranking settings that need active category, service-area, Q&A, and ranking QA.
Audit GBP fields, competitor categories, Q&A, service areas, appointment settings, and local rank movement as a recurring local SEO checklist.
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Claudia Tamina has published an article on Search Engine Land called if your local rankings are off your map pin may be the reason I Learned a couple things in this article that I hadn't thought of before the first one is the suite numbers in the address 1 field it's very interesting and she points this out those have to go in