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If you have a business that seems to have disappeared from Google maps results with the recent update try zooming in or out once on the map to reload the results and see if it reappears.
Here’s the story…
A buddy who I’ve done some SEO with brought this to my attention while he was trying to figure out why his business disappeared from local maps results with the recent Google update. When performing a search on Google maps or regular web results then clicking “more results” under the local pack the business was no longer in the results - anywhere. But, if you zoom in or out 1 time after the results are loaded, it is back ranking where it was previously. Continuing to adjust the zoom his business listing that previously wasn’t there on first load is still there.
This sounded similar to some recent things I had read on this forum here and here.
Here's a another one that just came in: <a href="http://www.localsearchforum.com/google-maps/42924-business-not-showing-maps.html">Business Not Showing in Maps</a>
(Added by Linda)
So I dug a little deeper into this.
So, when you click zoom on a google.com/maps search it will adjust the latitude and longitude coordinates in the URL along with a zoom degree. This zoom is a two digit number and a z, right after the coordinates separated from the coordinates by a comma - so for example: ,11z.
Now if I move the map to center on the business, and zoom in to something like 17z then copy that URL (with those coordinates and zoom) then open that URL in a new window or tab, the business is still not there. (But of course plenty of businesses well outside of the current map view are.) Interact with the map to reload results either with zoom or dragging to change location just enough to reload results, and the business reappears.
18z zoom level, still not there. Once I went up to 19z zoom it actually showed up - keep in mind this is with the coordinates set to the map being centered right over the business.
The business has ranked in local for over two years for the terms. This is a business in New York City with pretty high competition, so it's dense with many results and at the default zoom level pin markers are on top of each other like others have reported. But when zoomed in a bit you can see that none of them share a location and are at least 1/2 a NY block apart.
I just tried the same thing for this case and it seems to be the exact same thing except for even at the max zoom of 21z centered on the business location his business still doesn’t show up - you have to interact with the map to get results to reload for it to show up.
This definitely seems like a bug from the recent update. I would love to hear what people think and how many other cases you are seeing of this.
Here’s the story…
A buddy who I’ve done some SEO with brought this to my attention while he was trying to figure out why his business disappeared from local maps results with the recent Google update. When performing a search on Google maps or regular web results then clicking “more results” under the local pack the business was no longer in the results - anywhere. But, if you zoom in or out 1 time after the results are loaded, it is back ranking where it was previously. Continuing to adjust the zoom his business listing that previously wasn’t there on first load is still there.
This sounded similar to some recent things I had read on this forum here and here.
Here's a another one that just came in: <a href="http://www.localsearchforum.com/google-maps/42924-business-not-showing-maps.html">Business Not Showing in Maps</a>
(Added by Linda)
So I dug a little deeper into this.
So, when you click zoom on a google.com/maps search it will adjust the latitude and longitude coordinates in the URL along with a zoom degree. This zoom is a two digit number and a z, right after the coordinates separated from the coordinates by a comma - so for example: ,11z.
Now if I move the map to center on the business, and zoom in to something like 17z then copy that URL (with those coordinates and zoom) then open that URL in a new window or tab, the business is still not there. (But of course plenty of businesses well outside of the current map view are.) Interact with the map to reload results either with zoom or dragging to change location just enough to reload results, and the business reappears.
18z zoom level, still not there. Once I went up to 19z zoom it actually showed up - keep in mind this is with the coordinates set to the map being centered right over the business.
The business has ranked in local for over two years for the terms. This is a business in New York City with pretty high competition, so it's dense with many results and at the default zoom level pin markers are on top of each other like others have reported. But when zoomed in a bit you can see that none of them share a location and are at least 1/2 a NY block apart.
I just tried the same thing for this case and it seems to be the exact same thing except for even at the max zoom of 21z centered on the business location his business still doesn’t show up - you have to interact with the map to get results to reload for it to show up.
This definitely seems like a bug from the recent update. I would love to hear what people think and how many other cases you are seeing of this.
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