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The practice of improving a business's visibility in map packs and location-based search results for queries with local intent.

For businesses that serve customers in a defined area, such as clinics, trades and multi-location retailers, local results often drive calls, direction requests and store visits more directly than national organic rankings.

A dental group with 4 clinics verifies a Google Business Profile for each, sets accurate hours and categories, builds one location page per clinic with LocalBusiness structured data, aligns its NAP across 30 directories and answers reviews within 48 hours.

Distance to the searcher is a ranking factor a business cannot change, and Google states that a better local ranking cannot be requested or bought. Fake addresses, keyword-stuffed business names or selective review requests can lead to profile suspension.

Google describes local ranking as a mix of relevance, distance and prominence, where prominence draws on signals such as links, reviews and wider web presence. Practitioners work across the Google Business Profile (GBP), on-site location pages marked up with LocalBusiness structured data, NAP Consistency across citation sources, and review collection and response. Results appear in the local pack, in Google Maps and in standard organic listings.