Agreeing with Eric when carrying out ranking audits for my organization ( a large international Franchisor with 340+ locations in the UK) these directories ( UK specific similar ) rarely show in search results and are pretty meaningless in terms of local search.
Have just come across something totally new to me when researching a competitor. When undertaking a Google search on their name Google presented me with a search result with all their subsidiary companies at the top of the page. This appears to be driven by the company profile panel which has...
Is there any evidence that creating your own Q and A's e.g. for FAQ's has any negative impact on Local Pack, Local Finder rankings? We are a large multi location franchisor and would like to use GMB Q and A's for FAQ's however we do not want to effect our the local rankings of our franchisees...