Does anyone else dislike these local results? They started showing up today for "mycity web design" and "mycity web development." Now I understand popping these results for things like restaurants and florists, but web design? How does this help searchers? "Oh yeah, I love this company's portfolio. They're clearly the best in the entire city, but... hmmm. Wow. They're 12.4 miles away. Wow. Geeze. I don't know if I can still go with them. I mean, I might have to go to their office once or twice during our entire client-vendor relationship. And with gas prices the way they are. I think I'll just go with my wife's cousin who lives down the street. I hear he's doing some really great things with animated gifs." I guess there are some things a computer just can't figure out yet. Like which services need a map associated with them and which don't.
Yeah that is annoying, I never thought that SEO would involve moving closer to the geographical center of the city. Sheesh!
That's true, but now the people are getting less relevant results. And I'll tell ya what. That is just unacceptable. Even if I had been unfairly bumped up to the top, and relished in all of that new undeserved traffic, I would totally still be raising this issue. Totally. I might be raising it in a different light such as "look at all those losers below me." but I'd still bring it up. ...