{"id":12107,"date":"2012-01-26T15:11:26","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T19:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=12107"},"modified":"2012-01-26T15:18:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T19:18:02","slug":"is-google-reducing-the-local-search-result-footprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/26\/is-google-reducing-the-local-search-result-footprint\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Google Reducing the Local Search Result Footprint?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first noticed this yesterday where every search for &#8220;storage + city&#8221; returned a 3-pack result regardless of the city that was searched (ie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=storage+Toronto&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\">storage Toronto<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=storage+Detroit&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\">storage Detroit<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=storage+Miami&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\">storage Miami<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=storage+Atlanta&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\">etc<\/a> etc etc\u00a0). This was true even on international searches like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?client=safari&amp;rls=en&amp;q=storage+Paris+FR&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8\">storage Paris, Fr<\/a>.This change apparently occurred about two weeks ago and despite doing a range of searches both logged in and not, the\u00a0&#8220;storage + city&#8221; never returned a Blended Result nor a Pack other than the 3-Pack.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screen-shot-2012-01-26-at-1.50.20-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12108\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-01-26 at 1.50.20 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screen-shot-2012-01-26-at-1.50.20-PM-520x271.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screen-shot-2012-01-26-at-1.50.20-PM-520x271.png 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screen-shot-2012-01-26-at-1.50.20-PM-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screen-shot-2012-01-26-at-1.50.20-PM-1024x534.png 1024w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screen-shot-2012-01-26-at-1.50.20-PM.png 1048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While this search result was strange enough, today at least, many search results that were returning 7 Blended results or the 7-Pack are now returning many fewer pinned results.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screen-shot-2012-01-26-at-1.58.04-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12109\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-01-26 at 1.58.04 PM\" src=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screen-shot-2012-01-26-at-1.58.04-PM-520x447.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screen-shot-2012-01-26-at-1.58.04-PM-520x447.png 520w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screen-shot-2012-01-26-at-1.58.04-PM-232x200.png 232w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screen-shot-2012-01-26-at-1.58.04-PM-1024x880.png 1024w, https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Screen-shot-2012-01-26-at-1.58.04-PM.png 1052w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So my questions for you:<\/p>\n<p>1)Are any of you in the storage business and how long have you been seeing this 3-pack only result?<\/p>\n<p>2)For all of you, are your local searches now returning fewer pinned results in the main SERPS?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first noticed this yesterday where every search for &#8220;storage + city&#8221; returned a 3-pack result regardless of the city that was searched (ie storage Toronto, storage Detroit, storage Miami\u00a0etc etc etc\u00a0). This was true even on international searches like storage Paris, Fr.This change apparently occurred about two weeks ago and despite doing a range &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-maps-google-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12111,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12107\/revisions\/12111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}