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Schema - LocalBusiness markup for national companies

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ReunionMarketing Subscriber last edited by

If we are marking up schema for a company that does services nationally, but has one physical location, should we use LocalBusiness for the organization type? It's an advertising company that is based in North Carolina, but services companies nationally.

Thanks as always friends!
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tretanto last edited by

I've had that same dilemma a couple of times. I did not find a better solution that using Corporation including the one physical location as hasPOS or simply as location.
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