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See attached for how I answered this in my Reddit AMA. You might want to review the rest of the Q&A. There’s lots of gold there. https://www.reddit.com/r/whitespark/s/seDqVsMiw0

The service areas do not have any impact on rankings. All they do is show the user where you're willing to travel to. Setting them in GBP will not help you rank in those areas.

I have yet to see any compelling evidence that schema provides any value for AI SEO. Mark Williams-Cook did an interesting test where he showed that while content within the schema does get picked up, it still does even if it's totally fake schema. The conclusion is that the LLMs strip out all...

You could consider the Whitespark Local Citation Finder: https://whitespark.ca/local-citation-finder/

It could cause confusion/merges if you're trying to create a new profile with the same number. It's best to set it up with a new number and make that number forward to your real number. You can get a new number at many online sources, like phone dot com, NumberBarn, CallRail.

There is only one way to move an SAB. Here's how: https://www.sterlingsky.ca/move-your-sab-without-destroying-rankings/

There is always a risk of reverification, but in my experience, it's a low risk on name changes. It's almost guaranteed with address changes, it's likely with phone changes, and it's possible (but low risk) with name changes. It also seems to be even lower risk to do the name change through...

Further reading on that situation revealed that they were going after SerpAPI to stop OpenAI.

I encourage you to try Whitespark's Local Ranking Grids. Can confirm that it works.

Hi Yulia. Did the business ever move? If so, it's possible/likely that it is now ranking back at the old location.

Here's what I think is happening with Q&A: - Q&A on the front end will be replaced with their AI-driven "Ask Maps" - Q&A management will still exist in the backend (NMX) - When the AI has an answer, it gives it - When the AI doesn't have the answer, and enough people ask the same or similar...

Thanks for the idea! I look forward to creating this video.

The Whitespark free tool will let you check how you rank when searched from any location. You can even check how you rank when searching from specific zip codes: https://freelocalrankingchecker.com/

I have seen a case where the rankings moved 200 miles north to the middle of the desert. The business never had any presence up there. Seems similar to your case. Are your edits still pending? I'd wait a few more days before concluding the change of the service area had no impact.

Can't wait to hear back on this!