How is this Ge Factory Service ranking like this?
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Recently I was doing some research on "appliance repair" for a new client and I ran into some listings that are ranking locally on the 1st page without barely any backlinks or citations. I am wondering how they are doing this. I under stand since they are a GE company maybe this is why but there is not even no backlinks from the GE main site. This Ge Factory website is a pr0 so how is it ranking hundreds of listings without almost any citations?After searching Google I found over 10k listings for "GE Factory Service". How are they doing this? As I understand only Franchise listings are allowed to be posted Nationwide. After investigation I came to the conclusion that GE does not offer any Franchise Opportunities for their repair service. So isn't this in violation of the terms and conditions? These listings all have the address hidden since these are not storefronts. I have checked many listings and they are ranking for most cities I search including:Atlanta, San Diego, Dallas, Tucson,phoenix.Does anyone have any ideas how these listings with virtually no SEO? Any feedback is appreciated thanks
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repair.geappliances.com, and they are still ranking high for most of the cities. This is def against the terms and conditioins imo. I am using Chrome
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Hi,
- Don't fall for PR. Google has stopped updating it.
- As you said that the result is a local one, they really don't need much of backlinks to rank in local results.
Please provide url of the website, Google domain, your browser name. Check it once again by clearing the cache of your web browser.
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