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Service Areas Part 2
⚡ Sorry, I was wrong about service areas, BUT...
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I recently made a video presenting some data that service areas might impact rankings in local SEO. However, upon further investigation, it wasn't the service areas that had the impact. It was something I had never considered before.
In this new video, I go over an update to this case study, confirm that service areas DO NOT, in fact, impact rankings, and show you exactly why rankings can jump around so much when showing or hiding your address.