Google Local Search Update This Week?

[rustybrick]

Local RankFlux - Monitor Volatility in Google’s Local Algorithm shows fluctuations but the tool may have been off a bit over the past few weeks. Are you noticing anything with your client data?

 

[Colan Nielsen]

We are seeing several ranking reports with positive upwards movement that seems to coincide with the recent core update. What's not clear to me is if the update had a direct impact on the local results, or if the impact is an indirect result of organic ranking increases due to the core update.

 

[KabanaSoft]

i've seen several cases where a business that has a larger distance from center (10+mi) is now ranking for keywords after the update they didn't rank for before. Not sure if they made a minor proximity tweak or if it was a tweak that better matched that business with the keyword. Need to do some more digging.

 

[Yan Gilbert]

@KabanaSoft where are your checking results for you observation?

 

[KabanaSoft]

@KabanaSoft where are your checking results for you observation?

@Yan Gilbert - Places Scout, was hand checking a few reports i saw that had a large increase in total ranked keywords after the update