What Happens to Rankings When You Reopen a Closed Listing?

+ Save 30% On all Citation Services during our Labor Day SEO Sale! ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ Hello {NAME}, This week on the SEO Mad Scientist, we reopened the listings that we had marked as temporary closed on last week's test. Check out the GeoGrid comparisons and test results below to see what's happened to the rankings so far... SEO News this Week: > Google Local Service Ads To Allow You To Exclude Areas > Google Business Profile Tests Captions On Business Photos > Google Says Cloaking Affiliate Links Does Not Gain You Anything The 3rd deal of the Labor Day Sale is all about citations! Save 30% on all citation services - essential/business citations, niche citations & more! Code: labordaycitations > [Business citations]( Build the foundational citations you need for a stronger online brand. Plus, we maximize the power behind each citation built, so you can make the most of your client’s budget. > [Niche citations]( Establish your brand’s presence, strengthen the Knowledge Graph, build trust with search engines, and increase prominence for local rankings with our niche relevant listings. Check in every day until September 8th for your chance at our daily deals. [Get 30% Off!]( If you have any questions, please send us a message on the website or an email to support@web20ranker.com. To Your Success, Chaz and the Web 2.0 Ranker team This Week in the Lab with SEO Mad Scientist GBP Indexation: When Should You See Results from Your Optimization? We are back with another update on our GBP listing. If you missed our update two weeks ago, we put up a new GBP listing and optimized various parts of the listing for different products or services we offered. We then started tracking the keywords' progress to see which optimization areas responded the quickest when going live. More specifically, on a new listing… Last week we had just begun to show for our brand and primary category. Only exact match terms to the category and business name have been showing essentially. We created the listing on August 10th, brand and category terms started showing after two days, and it has now been 18 days (written 8/28/2022), and there has been no change to any of our keywords showing outside of the brand and category… Since there were no major changes to our listing yet, let's take a quick look at last week's closed listing to review something we noticed… If you remember, last week, we were looking out our listing that we had marked “temporarily out of business” in Google Business Profile. We had observed a complete loss of traffic and most rankings for some keywords. However, we still saw many variations of keywords ranking, and some even go up in ranking (which may just be a coincidence)... However, we noticed that when we looked at GBP Insight, the exact keywords that Google told us we were getting traffic for, were no longer ranked in our geographical area. Print shop, the GBP category, is the most obvious example where “print shop” is a term Google shows as generating traffic, as opposed to “printing shop,” which had no local searches… Or specifically the poster keywords: It's almost as if instead of Google is filtering the listing based on traffic. When we marked the business as temporarily closed, it seems Google didn’t “delist” the maps listing. Instead, they just took known traffic data and suppressed those specific searches. This is complete speculation but seems like it would possibly make sense as suppressing know searches with traffic would require less work than referencing all “possible” keyword searches and suppressing them all (essentially delisting it but not deindexing it) If our theory is correct, then Google we would expect that Google “unsuppresses” these specific SERPs once the business is marked open again. We have been waiting to mark the business open to see if any of these other terms would lose their rankings, but they seem to hold strong. So as of September 1st, we have marked the listing open again. Join us next week as we wait for the effects of the business listing being “reopened.” Until next week, Happy testing! :-) [Facebook]( [Youtube]( Sent to: {EMAIL} [Unsubscribe]( Web 20 Ranker, 3915 Union Deposit Rd #918, Harrisburg, PA 17109, United States