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Hi everyone,

Here is my problem. This site: https://247ride.com/town-cars/ ranks for bunch of really good keywords. Such as lax car service, car service to lax etc. The keyword does not appear in Title tag, and only partially on meta description. The site's DA is 23 and PA is 22. Less than 29 links overall, and linking domains 8. Why in your opinion Google is ranking this page #1 and #2 for many competitive keywords. I know it's a hard question to ask but any input would be greatly appreciated. I am working really hard to rank for same keywords and  so far i am at #11 position.

Thanks in advance,

Davit

Hi Miriam,

Thank you for you answer.

One more thing I am not looking at the 3pack, only the organic results that appear below.

The page that I am trying to rank with is: https://www.dcacar.com/lax-car-service.html. Our company is based in Washington DC but we launched in several cities about a year ago. LA is one of the cities that we would really like to rank in as there is a lot of business In Denver and Cleveland we have had good results but LA seems a bit harder. We have a GMB listing in LA linked to the above landing page. Now we are working on a complete site re-design to make it more user friendly and appealing to clients. When I mentioned their #1 or #2 position I was using Moz's Serp Analysis.

Oh one more thing I could not find their GMB listing, but the Yelp profile sucks big time- https://www.yelp.com/biz/24-7-ride-orange

1.5 stars with over 600 reviews.

Hi everyone,

I have a weird problem that has been bothering me for the last few months. One of our urls:

https://www.dcacar.com/lax-car-service.html

Ranks for keywords such as "car service to lax", "lax car service", etc. It does pretty well from any location that we check: page 1, position 5-7. But here is the interesting part, when a searcher in actually in Los Angeles it does not show up at all, even on page 4. So if you're anywhere else in USA you'll see our landing page on page 1 position 5-7 but when you're in Los Angeles where we actually want the people to see the landing page it's no where to be found. I added our local office address at the bottom, also added a link to our local Yelp page hoping that might send some kind of signal to Google but as of now no luck. Has anyone experienced anything like this and what is the solution? What do we have to do to fix this weird problem.

Thanks in advance

Hi Miriam,

Thanks a lot for your quick answer. I did read the whole thread but I am thinking our situation is a bit different. Let me explain why. Also frankly I did not find a solution to the problem either:)

1st the site was not redesigned, total number of links per Link Explorer is 52. 29 followed and the rest no follow. No manual penalty in our Google  Search Console. I have checked that many times. Also same question as you raised in the other post why would we rank for the keyword all over USA but not in LA if we were under some kind of penalty. The anchor text for those few links seems pretty diversified. We do have some exact match keywords but a very small percentage of total. I am a Moz PRO member for almost 5 years. Would it be possible to have someone look into our situation to shed some light on what is happening here. It would mean the world to me. If you need any other info I would love to post it here or I can send it via email privately.

Thank you,

Davit

Miriam,

Thank you for looking into our problem and spending your time to do some research. I am currently in Washington DC but my LA fleet manager will be back for work on Monday I will ask him to do the search and get back to you right away. I did the same thing you did from Washington DC and when searching for "car service to lax" I get exactly the same result as you. There are there pages for the local pack but we are no where to be found. In organic I see our url ranking in #4 on page 1 that might be a bit biased as google might rank us higher since it knows we always click on our url. I also conducted another search just for fun.

I searched for "car service from lax" the same thing almost except instead of "to" we use the word "from". I see our site on position #4 but in this instance there is no local results. Google shows local results when searching to LAX but not FROM.

The only way I can see our business in local results is by searching "car service los angeles" I find us on the page 4 of local results.(4th tier). Again a terrible place but at least it comes up. To tell you the truth I am not much worried about the local at this time, I was just confused why the organic result is such a mess.  I think if we get an office close to LAX we will fix the problem with  local results at least I have that feeling but I just can't understand the organic situation at all.

I will write to you again Monday or Tuesday with our findings. Again thanks a million and enjoy your weekend.  I think if we get an office close to LAX we will fix the problem with

Hi Miriam,

Thanks for your patience and your help, it mean the world to me. Sorry for getting back to you late. But we are getting conflicting results from the same location. We will be doing another test today and I will compose a detailed report of our findings tonight or the latest tomorrow. Thanks again,

Davit

Hi Miriam,

Please see below our findings from last night.

Desktop Location is LOZ FELIZ

Car service to LAX Desktop/Organic checked till 5 page-None,Desktop/Local with untouched map-None, Desktop/Local with map moved to Little Armenia - 1st page 3rd hit,  Desktop/Local zoomed out(5km) - 2nd page 7th hit---Car service to LAXMobile/local - zoomed in to East Hollywood and Atwater Village are 5th, Mobile/organic - None---Car service near meDesktop/Organic. checked till 4th - None, Desktop/Local - 1st hit----

Car service near meMobile/Organic - None, Mobile/Local - 1st hit.Please let me know if you need anything else.

Hi Thomas, we are working on fixing the issues you mentioned right now. I will update you if it works. Thanks for your detailed analysis. It means the world to us.