How You Can Fix Cannibalization on GBP Listings?

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If you are not sure which of our campaigns would provide the best results for your clients, get [FREE custom campaign recommendations]( from our team! This Week in the [Local SEO Community](... This Week in the Lab with SEO Mad Scientist GBP Cannabilization… How Can We Fix It? Hey there SEO Testers! We have been working hard behind the scenes trying to create a cannibalization scenario with a test listing so that we could begin to do some controlled cannibalization tests… The time has come to start reviewing these awesome tests and see if we can begin to crack the “cannibalization code”! The past few weeks, we have talked about listings that we had the services pulled in from the website to get added to the GBP listing and how these terms and their placements on the website directly influenced rankings. We have now put up a second listing at the same location with optimization for “search engine optimization” to attempt to create a cannibalization scenario we can begin testing on. As of a few days ago, we now have the listing starting to show for terms, but the first listing is clearly suppressing it… Even after a few more days, we see some upward movement, but nothing compared to what we saw from the first listing optimization once it started to show for the term. Both listings had the same optimization done but with a few tweaks to test some things. First, each listing has a different primary category… We wanted to see if the primary category at all influenced the cannibalization. We had assumed this wouldn't be the case because that doesn't change the fact that both would be listed in the same SERP result. So our theory seems true; the listing's categories have nothing to do with being filtered and is purely a keyword-specific occurrence. We know this happens when two listings are at the same exact location, and when someone searches a keyword, Google won't return two listings right on top of each other. In some cases of attorneys, if this were the way it worked, we would see all the pins right at one location zoomed in on one building. So if the primary category doesn't impact this, maybe the pin location does? Previously when testing if service area businesses wouldn't experience this issue versus a local address because they're not technically "at that location," there didn't seem to be any difference. Still, now that setting your business up as a SAB seems to recenter your PIN in the middle of your service area, this may help with the issue. This is why one of our listings is a SAB, but we can see from the current results that the verified location still is the primary factor on whether listings cannibalize each other. With this understanding, we don't believe there is a way we can get both listings to show for the top term, but if we can figure out how to get Google to switch which listing is being cannibalized, that will definitely be beneficial. 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