The thing I've noticed for awhile, and I can't say that it makes a ton of sense to me (maybe someone else can make sense of it), is in Maps, when there are maybe 50 companies serving a particular industry in a particular city (say plumbers in Springfield), the results on a single page are not grouped alphabetically nor by distance from a central location. If I continue to page through the Maps results, each set of pushpins looks like a shotgun pattern.
I know - that's not the organic
serps. Just something I thought was odd and can't understand. Maybe they are ranked just as the organic
serps are.
The source of major frustration for me is our B&M business is not in the city where the most work is available. But I can literally throw a stone from our B&M into that city. We're talking 30 feet. But because we're in a neighboring city, we are nowhere to be found in the onebox. It's a damn shame, because we've been #1 for awhile in the organic results for the city we want to rank for. And we're doing PPC as well. But we're not in the onebox.
We have some rental property in that city, and while it'd be a bit of a fib, I'm considering changing our local listing and website to reflect that, just to get in the onebox.
Another idea - get a PO Box in the city, so we can legitimately be "located" there.
Any thoughts or other ideas about how a business in a neighboring city can get into the onebox for the "better" city?