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I'm looking for some insights regarding a Google Local Services Ads (LSA) issue.
I own a moving company in Germany and had excellent LSA performance until about 6 months ago. At that time, we were generating around 40 leads per day, with roughly 25–30 being high-quality moving inquiries. We have 120 Google reviews with a 5.0 rating, Google Guarantee is active, response times...

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I have following high intent keywords to rank for. When i do Google search on each of them in my area, results vary by each queries.

My questions is that when i am optimizing for them should i create individual pages for them or not?

PriorityPage1Fence Company Near Me2Fence Installation Near Me4Fence Contractors Near Me5Fence Builder Near...

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I mean, not always (in theory... Like, I actually tried to find an example WITH more than 20 results and literally couldn't!), but i am seeing a MASSIVE uptick of queries where clicking on "more results" never shows more than one page, and these are queries for sizeable cities (Including Montreal!) that should by all measures, have dozens, if not hundreds of result...

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I saw a case recently in Google's community forum where a real estate agent had created a practitioner profile using their “work” email. (i.e. an email on their brokerage’s website domain) They left the brokerage to work elsewhere, so the email account used to create the profile was shut down, and they lost access to their practitioner profile.

In another case, a market...

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We have a couple roofing clients (KY and TX) - and also HVAC in a rural area of IN - who have just started LSA (each have been running for a few weeks) but despite raising budgets several times (to $3-10k/wk in some cases) - still getting very few impressions.

Recently have tried scaling back their service area and numbers of services assuming that was spreading them t...

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