Google Places Drop
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Hi everyone!
I have a client that was ranking very nicely for a number of keywords. In the 5 pack for most of the keywords we were targeting. His account went under review for some unknown reason about 2 months ago. It disappeared from the listing... Then a few weeks ago it became approved again.
He is now no longer ranking for any of those keywords. He is ranking for some obscure ones but the money words are gone.
Do you think this was due to the review? Some sort of GP update over the last 60 days?
All of my other clients are still ranking strong in Google Places.
Any ideas?
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That was my thought. The listing has come back. It is showing up for some keywords but not as many as before. I am going to give it more time and build more citations. Hopefully this will help!
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is your client still showing up at all in Google places? If the answer that is no then Google has found him to an eligible to use Google places. Most likely It was an error that Google made and your site was not indexed with the local URL pointing out it so it hurt it massively in your local search.
If Google is returned places to normal and there's no difference at all to the prior one I do not see why with time your client will not reach the same heights that he had before.
You simply need to be reindexed and Google needs to understand that you are local. It takes time
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