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Google's New Local Search Results

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More than ever your local places and adwords are more important. Today while searching for a specific dealership by location I found a results page never seen before. I did a little research and apparently this is across the board. Testing? Maybe but if it does well and generates more revenue than expect it to stay. I found it pretty cool but at first did not realize that the local listing was the search results for most the page.

Check this article that was written about it 5 Quick Impacts of Google’s New Local Search Results.

The article has a view of the SERP's. This is a game changer because i have sites that are high ranking in organic but not local and vice versa.
 

✨ AI Highlights

A dealer shares observations about Google's new local search results layout, which integrates Google Places listings more prominently into SERPs, potentially as a permanent feature if it drives revenue. The key insight is that this structural change creates a split-opportunity problem: dealerships need to optimize both organic and local search rankings separately, as high performance in one doesn't guarantee visibility in the other under this new layout.

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