Our organization manages Google listings for lot of small clinics and dental offices.
A prospect is interested in our services, and we noticed that their DDS providers (people) had their primary category set to 'Dental clinic' (location category).
Questions:
1. Are there any consequences (from Google's POV) in applying location categories to listings for individual people? The concern is getting flagged for re-verification, local search repercussions, etc.
2. If there are no consequences, is there any research or evidence that point to 'mix-and-match' categories being beneficial for SEO? I've searched the forums/Google/GenAI and could not find any meaningful evidence on how these hybrid categories could affect ranking.
TIA!
A prospect is interested in our services, and we noticed that their DDS providers (people) had their primary category set to 'Dental clinic' (location category).
Questions:
1. Are there any consequences (from Google's POV) in applying location categories to listings for individual people? The concern is getting flagged for re-verification, local search repercussions, etc.
2. If there are no consequences, is there any research or evidence that point to 'mix-and-match' categories being beneficial for SEO? I've searched the forums/Google/GenAI and could not find any meaningful evidence on how these hybrid categories could affect ranking.
TIA!
