{"id":30,"date":"2006-10-25T16:37:23","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T20:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2006-10-25T16:45:18","modified_gmt":"2006-10-25T20:45:18","slug":"google-organic-local-and-google-maps-local-data-diverge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/25\/google-organic-local-and-google-maps-local-data-diverge\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Organic Local and Google Maps Local data diverge"},"content":{"rendered":"

About a month and half a go I spotted a trend that is interesting: The top three local listings on the Google Organic results page and the top three listings in Google Map are often not the same.<\/p>\n

This has implications for both optimization strategies for Google Organic AND going forward for the directory assistance service<\/a> that Google is testing. For the present, getting into the top three on the main results page or achieving a “onebox” result<\/a> on that page is all that matters. There is little traffic coming from Google Maps and less yet from the yet unclaimed directory assistance.<\/p>\n

It appears that the two pages calculate authority of listings using different algorithms.Here are some examples of this discrepancy:<\/p>\n

Search Phrase:<\/p>\n

Example 1: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Ellicottville NY Vacation Rentals<\/a> Google Organic results page: Onebox Standing<\/p>\n

Ellicottville NY Vacation Rentals<\/a> Google Maps results page: Number 2 (B) Standing<\/p>\n

Example 2: <\/strong><\/p>\n

Bradford Pa restaurant<\/a> Google Organic results page: Number 1 (of 3) Standing<\/p>\n

Bradford Pa restaurant<\/a> Google Maps results page: Number 19 (I) Standing on Page 2!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Most efforts at optimization for Google Maps (Local) have resulted in roughly similar standings. Out of 6 tested phrases (and that were listed in the top 3 on Google Organic), there were 2 listings that had the same ranking in both locations. Three of the other listings were within one or two places but the example above had a discrepancy of 18 places.<\/p>\n

The optimization strategy used on the\u00c2\u00a0 Bradford Pa restaurant<\/a> was the same as used in every other listing that I have optimized.
\nThis one has me baffled. Any ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About a month and half a go I spotted a trend that is interesting: The top three local listings on the Google Organic results page and the top three listings in Google Map are often not the same. This has implications for both optimization strategies for Google Organic AND going forward for the directory assistance …<\/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-30","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\/30","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=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}