Local SEO Posts
Local SEO·August 16, 2026·
Octavian Ciorici·14 min readLocal SEO Ranking Factors 2026: What Moves the Local Pack
A business with a perfectly filled-out Google Business Profile can still lose the local pack to a competitor with a messier-looking listing. That's not a glitch, it's the local SEO ranking factors working exactly as designed, just not the ones most local SEO advice focuses on.
Local SEO·August 8, 2026·Octavian Ciorici·10 min readBreadcrumb Schema Markup vs. FAQ Schema: What Works in 2026
If your web developer added FAQ schema to your site hoping for those expandable question dropdowns under your listing in Google Search, it stopped working, and there's a good chance nobody told you. Google removed FAQ rich results from search entirely as of May 7, 2026. Not scaled back. Removed.