Google My Business uses many factors to determine rankings for businesses. We’ll highlight the three most important ones:
Relevance
Distance
Prominence
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Google My Business uses many factors to determine rankings for businesses. We’ll highlight the three most important ones:
Relevance
Distance
Prominence
What's your opinion regarding this? Share your words
Every business wants to rank as high as possible, but Google’s algorithm is based on three primary factors to determine where businesses ranks in a local search: relevance, proximity, and prominence.
a) How Google’s recent algorithm changes affected local search
b) If proximity is still the biggest ranking factor
c) If citation management and NAP consistency are still important
d) Whether local business websites still matter
e) The impact does link building really has
f) If ranking factors are different for service area business
Consistency of NAP is also important for the ranking of the business in SERP
3 Ranking factors of Google My Business
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Your location(s). Make sure that your business location(s) are verified so that they are eligible to show on Google.
Keep your service hours accurate
Reviews
Add photos
Every business wants to rank as high as possible, but Google's algorithm is based on three primary factors to determine where businesses ranks in a local search: relevance, proximity and prominence.