The local SEO gatekeeper: How Google defines your entity

via searchengineland.com

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Most businesses don’t fail to rank in the local pack because they lack reviews, links, or proximity.  They fail long before that because Google never considers them eligible in the first place.  This is a recurring pattern in local search that almost everyone overlooks.  Google decides what you are before it decides how relevant you […]

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