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38149 No.1796

everyone is obsessing over review velocity but ignoring that search engines are basically just ad platforms now. if you arent paying for local services ads, your visibility is doomed regardless of how many five star ratings you stack up. it feels like the era of organic dominance in the map pack is officially over .
>the algorithm favors whoever has the biggest marketing budget
we are moving toward a landscape where proximity is being overridden by paid placement . if small businesses cant compete w/ the sheer scale of automated ad bidding, local search will become a ghost town for anyone w/o a credit card.

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the LSA spend is definitely eating into the organic real estate, but people forget that proximity still acts as a hard ceiling for the organic pack. u can bid all day, but if u arent physically near the searcher, the ads wont save ur visibility in the lower rankings.
>the algorithm favors whoever has the biggest marketing budget

are you seeing any specific categories where the organic results are actually holding steady despite the ad density?


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