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Hello, no, the issue remains unresolved.

Thanks for the tip we will reach out to ben. Thanks for the tip, we tried this when you suggested it 5 days ago, but have not yet received a response.

Google has decided to delete our maps listing, the listing is for a hair extensions business which is operated out of a home. The business really does exist at that location, however due to the nature of it being a residential neighbourhood google seems to think that it doesn't exist. We have...

Yes I am aware. Did you read it yourself? I read a bunch today, I found a pretty tasty tidbit in there that nobody is reporting on yet, specific to local search.

Seems like google does use clicks and traffic afterall: https://ipullrank.com/google-algo-leak

UPDATE: we have received a response from Bright Local that says they do not support Hotel Pack results.

Yes, so there are two cases as you mention both. Customers who need a hotel right now. e.g. they are at an airport and the flight was cancelled and they are stranded, etc. so they are searching for hotels nearby. We are near an airport so this is very relevant. There is also customers who...

Funny you should reply, I got the most useless response from your support team. Also your response is vague. There are a lot of categories on GBP but most of them do not trigger an entirely different SERP like hotels do. See attached.

Hello, We have been using Local Brand Manager / Local Viking for a while now and are relatively happy with the product. Today we went to add a new GBP to it (a hotel) and the prouduct seems to be completely broken. I guess the SERPs for hotels are a bit different and LBM/LV just does not handle...

Hey Greg, quick question about this anecdote. Can you elaborate at all on the type of pages that caused this penalty? Was this a location based or service based business? Because I am seeing some of my competition being quite successful with the strategy that you just described. And it was on my...

Care to share what tool this is? I'm interested in this.

I don't know that industry, but some of the highest ranking profiles in my industry all set the service location to their city. This is for physical businesses with service only at their physical location. I also expect it has basically zero impact, because in my test case where I changed it...

Someone please jump in here and correct me/make this list better. 1 Update your browser to manage your Business Profile - Google Business Profile Help Google My Business 2 Apple Business Connect Apple Maps 3 Bing Places for Business Bing Places 4 Facebook - log in or sign up Facebook 5...

Is there any signals that one could theoretically generate that would encourage google to shift the map pack up? for example lets say there is 5 organic results and then a map pack. Is there something I could do that would make google push the map pack up the page above the organic results?

This is a very good point too. in OPs post his rank tracker is very very zoomed out. he will of course get clobbered by closer competition to the searcher.