Google Local Search Algorithm Update – 2014

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by Jody Nimetz
http://www.mediative.com

On July 24th, Google released a major local search algorithm update that impacts Google Maps and Web results.  Here’s a quick overview of the Google local search update.

As with any major algorithm update it is still too early to tell what the exact impact will be, however there are various reports from searchers and online marketers as to what changes they are seeing thus far.  One thing to note is that this algorithm update has only been rolled out to US English results and has not yet been rolled out in Canada as of yet.  If you want to compare results, try running some local queries in Google.com vs. Google.ca.  Google is not releasing a lot of details on the update, but here are some of the observations that are being made:


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