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@essdee Thanks, I will let you know how it turns out.

@essdee Thank you for your feedback. We do have a places page, the keywords are in the title tag and the geo info is all in the footer. I suspect the issue lies within the Google Places Page, something we are working on now.

Thanks again!

Recently I have been working to solve an issue where we rank number 2 for "Web Design Memphis" yet we do not appear on the first few pages for the keyword "web design." Several of our local competitors appear on the first page without the geo keyword.

What can be done to solve this issue? I am not searching incognito and Google is recognizing my locality. Why is the competition able to rank on the first page without the geo keyword and we are not?

Thanks for your feedback!

Thanks, Megan. That makes perfect sense. I appreciate you making that more clear!

When using the Find New Keywords tool, the information listed for Rank is often incorrect. I attached an image with two screen shots. One from the Find New Keywords Tool and the other is a Google search results page.

In Incognito mode, I searched for the third item on the list, "Speak Creative Memphis." The results put us at #1 for that term, but the Keyword Tool shows that we're #4.

Can you help me understand why there is a difference?

keywordtool-ss.jpg

When using the Find New Keywords tool, the information listed for Rank is often incorrect. I attached an image with two screen shots. One from the Find New Keywords Tool and the other is a Google search results page.

In Incognito mode, I searched for the third item on the list, "Speak Creative Memphis." The results put us at #1 for that term, but the Keyword Tool shows that we're #4.

Can you help me understand why there is a difference?

keywordtool-ss.jpg