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Google Business Profile service-area settings do not make a business rank in nearby cities outside its real location boundary.
Oh, here's the problem. You are the plumber in Denver, and you want to rank in Aurora, Colorado too. Hey, you're like, yeah, we're just like on the edge of Denver.
We'll service Aurora, Colorado. Forget it. Just give up.
You can't do it unless you read Miriam's article.
Cause Miriam's article is gonna give you some strategies. It's a very tricky thing. If you are outside of the city borders, it's a problem.
The one true fix is to open another location in Aurora. Of course, that's the best you could do. But she provides all the backup plans and how to do this.
And she talks about how service areas, and if you don't know this, listen up. The service area section in your Google Business Profile has zero impact on your rankings in those service areas. Google laughs at you if you put whatever you put in there.
Google, in the back end, there's a whole laugh track that plays as soon as you press enter. So it's basically no value in there.
It's a sad trombone. That's even better, yeah. As soon as you put in this service area.
Yeah, thanks for nothing, Google.
Google Business Profile service-area settings do not make a business rank in nearby cities outside its real location boundary.
For local SEO expansion, treat city-border/location fit as a real ranking constraint; do not rely on Google Business Profile service-area fields as a shortcut into nearby cities.
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The service area section in your Google Business Profile has zero impact on your rankings in those service areas.