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ok thank you. I was mainly wondering if the descriptions have any effect on rankings. A competitor of mine is owning ranking and has quite a few descriptions, so I was thinking there was some effect. All keywords on linked webpage are the same, backlinks same, etc. Im just trying to crack Maps...

do you think services and their descriptions matter in GBP?

I am analyzing a GBP competitor that is doing better than me. One thing that is glaring to me is the amount of services listed vs my GBP. Competitor has 125 services listed on their GBP. Many are just different word variations of the same type of service. Competitor also has 1 primary category...

For a SAB that does not show an address on GBP, when they build citations, are they also leaving an address off?

I have a SAB and now have a physical address I can use on my GBP. But I have been only reading non-stop about GBP's getting suspended left and right just for changing address. Do you think its too dicey right now with Google? Just seems like an especially volatile time right now. Thoughts?

thank you! And do you find all bets are off for service area GBP's though? and I also thought the same about How many competitors are in the area, and How close they are to their nearest competitor- but in Sterling Sky's blog post screenshots, one is a realtor and one is a lawyer. Which are...

I always thought GBP's could not rank well farther out from their business location. You usually see the better rankings clustered around the business' actual location, and then rankings drop off the farther out you go. But then I was just reading Sterling Sky/Joy Hawkins' blog post from...

all the services listed under both my primary and secondary categories apply to my business and the servces I actually offer. Many are just awkwardly worded. Further on this point, do you treat services like keyword bank? and add as many keyword variations that you think potential customers...

This is great info- ty! I wanted to ask about the services per each category (primary and additional). What do you do with all the extra and somewhat awkard services that Google has automatically added to the categories? For example, I am a photographer and Google has added "styles poses" and...

I thought so too, but read what Elizabeth wrote so wanted to clarify. and I know plenty of services that use review schema for their service (not products).

Hi Elizabeth! I had a question on the "review" property- is that something that SEO's are still doing for local businesses that provide a service and get reviewed on? I thought I read that Google is saying now that the "review" property only applies to actual products/items?

hello! just asking for clarification. when you say this, do you mean you are linking the BBB profile to the city/service page on the website?

thank you!

Hi there! what structure did you end up going with?

Hi Conor! Question for you- does it matter if the url is: /location-service or /service-location just curious what your thoughts are. Clients looking for my services will always search "service + location" in Google (they tell me and thats what I see in Google Search Console, too).