Post by account_disabled on Mar 12, 2024 17:32:12 GMT 7
The huge ranking factor on desktop as well. Google has been going mobilefirst for years and Im starting to think that there is no difference in how they process mobile and desktop local results. You just see different results because Google can get a more precise location on mobile. Furthermore Bill Slawski just published a post about a recently approved Google patent for determining the quality of locations based on travel time investment. The patent talks about using quality measures like reviews both user and professional AND travel time and distance from the searcher time investment to rank local businesses in search results.
One excerpt from the patent The present disclosure is directed Europe Cell Phone Number List to methods and apparatus for determining the quality measure of a given location. In some implementations the quality measure of a given location may be determined based on the time investment a user is willing to make to visit the given location. For example the time investment for a given location may be based on comparison of one or more actual distance values to reach the given location to one or more anticipated distance values to reach the given location.
The actual distance values are indicative of actual time of one or more users to reach the given location and the anticipated distance values are indicative of anticipated time to reach the given location. The patent was filed in May so we can assume that Google may have been experimenting with this and incorporating it into local search for at least the past to years. cranked up on this factor as Google gets more distance and travel data from Android users and from users of the Google Maps app on other mobile platforms. These results suck It seems to me that in most business categories putting so much emphasis on proximity is a pretty poor way to rank results. I dont.
One excerpt from the patent The present disclosure is directed Europe Cell Phone Number List to methods and apparatus for determining the quality measure of a given location. In some implementations the quality measure of a given location may be determined based on the time investment a user is willing to make to visit the given location. For example the time investment for a given location may be based on comparison of one or more actual distance values to reach the given location to one or more anticipated distance values to reach the given location.
The actual distance values are indicative of actual time of one or more users to reach the given location and the anticipated distance values are indicative of anticipated time to reach the given location. The patent was filed in May so we can assume that Google may have been experimenting with this and incorporating it into local search for at least the past to years. cranked up on this factor as Google gets more distance and travel data from Android users and from users of the Google Maps app on other mobile platforms. These results suck It seems to me that in most business categories putting so much emphasis on proximity is a pretty poor way to rank results. I dont.