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Understanding Google My Business & Local Search

Google Maps – New abuses via Wikipedia landing pages?

I have received several reports from the locksmith industry (who else?) and elsewhere of a new “black hat” ranking tactic that seems to push listings to the top of the 7 Pack by using a Wikipedia webpage as the Map’s landing page.

For example, the links on the search for Locksmith Toronto ON head off to Wikipedia location pages (Ontario, Toronto & Scarborough, Ontario) that one presumes have a very strong default Location Prominence ranking.

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