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Is this still true? I was chatting with someone today who claims he noticed this changing. He manages over 70 listings. He claimed the Service area was impacting rankings now and the actual location of the address where verified (on a hidden address listing) was less important. Thought I'd...

Yes this is exactly my question, do they treat Boroughs in New york as limits for geolocalised searches.

I'm talking about google maps rankings mainly. Because right now, if you are targeting a certain city with your GBP, but the address of the GBP is outside the city limits, it is very difficult to outrank GBPs inside the city limits... for searches done by people inside that city limits...

I know this is a super old thread but it was the most relevant thread to this question. .. does anyone know, if the google and/or google maps algo essentially treats boroughs as cities?

at this point, one of the big traffic opportunities is to become a SOURCE for the LLMs to reference when giving their answers. If you start thinking like a SOURCE not as a search result page, it makes more sense. Here are some things Thomas Magee posted the other day related to this:

which verification option do you prefer to do instead?

Have you tried just doing a different kind of verification from the start? Or same suspension result?

without. Using the brightlocal tool: FREE Local SERP Checker - Local Search Results Checker for Google

I've noticed a few things looking at rankings recently. For a couple years, if your GBP was inside the searcher's city, that could easily trump many other ranking factors, even reviews, when competing with Gbps outside the searcher's city. But lately It seems like I"m seeing more of this...

How did this work out for you? Did it solve your problem?

what kind of business is it?

Have a lot of proof ready, for example, business license, paperwork etc.. that all show the business is at that address

Interested in this also... has this changed?

First of all, make sure it actually coincides with that update date, and remember, it might not have been the update at all. But there is a thread about this here: How did the March 2023 Core Algorithm Update Impact Local Rankings? It got a little off topic but if you conclude that it was...

could have been the march update Google Search Status Dashboard