Is it possible to have an ogranic and places listing on the same SERP?
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Have a bit of a quandary; I am working with a site that ranks fourth for their main term via a Google Places listing.
However, I can't seem to find a traditional organic listing to save my life.The only way I can do it is to search from a mobile device, or expand the search results to 100 listings. When I do that, the site appears in the top 10 organic listings.
That got me to wondering, is it possible this client's traditional organic listing is being cannabalized by their listing in Google Places?
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I just ask because the tool can show exactly where your site should be showing up in the SERPs and may provide a little insight. If nothing else it saves some time.
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Sure, I searched for "Spanish restaurants New Haven" (personalized search off) and there are 2 locations that have both a places listing and their organic listing and organic listing on page 1.
https://www.google.com/search?q=spanish restaurants%2Bnew%2Bhaven&gl=us&pws=0
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Hey Just Ducky,
I have a client who had an e-commerce website for years. We re-designed their site and the sales shot up insanely higher (their original site was really bad). A couple of years into working with the client, Local became big. The client has a little studio/shop that people can visit, so we did some Local SEO for them as well. Rankings have not fallen...but more important, sales have continued to increase annually.
Miriam
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Hey Andrea - Not using a rank tracker, I am checking the SERPs by hand
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Hey Jeffrey - whats's the example you're looking at? I would love to see it
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Jason : I've been wondering about the cannibalization issue too. It seems possible. Does anyone have any experience with the changes in SERPs on a strong site which started SEO for local well into the site's existence ? If so, I'd like to hear about the experience.
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Hi Jason,
Almost anything is possible in the SERPs in this regard. You can have an organic listing, a Place Page, a one box, blended listings and everything but the kitchen sink.
Without seeing your listing in question, I am wondering if your keyword phrase is one that just happens to return Places-only results (what we used to refer to as the 10-pack and the 7-pack and the 3-pack). Are competitors' results local-only (places-based) or are they blended organic/local results for this search term?
How strong is the client's site? Is it well optimized?
Sorry to be answering your question with more questions but some more details might help, though you certainly don't need to highlight your client if you aren't permitted to.
Miriam
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I know it's possible to have an organic search result and a places page both on the first page of search results (I'm looking at an example of that right now).
As far as your cannibalization issue, I'm not so sure that's true. I haven't heard of that happening before.
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Does the Rank Tracker tool show the site anywhere in the SERP for the main term?
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