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Does The Number Of Reviews Matter When You Want To Rank A Difficult Key Phrase In Local Search?

25th April, 2018 By April

In episode 178 of Semantic Mastery's weekly Hump Day Hangouts, one participant asked whether the number of reviews matters when trying to rank a difficult key phrase to page one in local search.

The exact question was:

Hey guys, I have a client with a seemingly difficult key phrase to get to page one.
It is (I replaced the two keywords with “”Keyword””) Keyword Keyword Minneapolis MN when I search for this using a Private Window we end up as #10 of page TWO. However if I put quotes around it, “”Keyword Keyword Minneapolis MN”” we are on page one plus it's in the Maps Pak. We rank #3, #4, and a YouTube video ranks #9.

I've done the first column of a silo on the website, Siloed the videos together, even have 3 levels of IFTTT put together, but still cannot seem to move the website up to page one for this key phrase. And another detail, the client has 7, 5 star reviews compared to his competition's 87, 5 star reviews. (Would that make a difference?)

What the heck? Please help me I cannot afford to lose more hair! (BTW I am a Syndication 2.0 member)

Okay I'll stop and take a deep breath now.
Edit Addition: I have noticed that one of our main competitors is EVERYWHERE on every type of keyword search I try. Always on page one. (The company with 87, 5 star reviews, they also have pages on their site for almost every suburb, “”Keyword Keyword suburbcity MN””

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