{"id":8354,"date":"2025-08-20T10:29:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/?page_id=8354"},"modified":"2025-12-02T15:46:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:46:38","slug":"local-search-ranking-factors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/local-search-ranking-factors\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Search Ranking Factors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='breakdance'><section class=\"bde-section-8354-150 bde-section dark-bg\">\n  \n  \n\t\n\n\n\n<div class=\"section-container\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bde-image2-8354-151 bde-image2\" src=\"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/lsrf-2026.png\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/lsrf-2026.png 1241w, https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/lsrf-2026-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/lsrf-2026-1024x484.png 1024w, https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/lsrf-2026-768x363.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1241px) 100vw, 1241px\"><h1 class=\"bde-heading-8354-152 bde-heading\">\nLocal Search Ranking Factors\n<\/h1><h1 class=\"bde-heading-8354-153 bde-heading\">\nYour ultimate guide to local search success in 2026!\n<\/h1><div class=\"bde-div-8354-154 bde-div\">\n  \n  \n\t\n\n\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bde-image2-8354-155 bde-image2\" src=\"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/darren-shaw-whitespark-founder-1.png\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/darren-shaw-whitespark-founder-1.png 1392w, https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/darren-shaw-whitespark-founder-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/darren-shaw-whitespark-founder-1-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/darren-shaw-whitespark-founder-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/darren-shaw-whitespark-founder-1-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1392px) 100vw, 1392px\"><div class=\"bde-div-8354-156 bde-div\">\n  \n  \n\t\n\n\n\n<div class=\"bde-text-8354-157 bde-text\">\nBy Darren Shaw\n<\/div><div class=\"bde-text-8354-158 bde-text\">\n|\n<\/div><div class=\"bde-text-8354-159 bde-text\">\nPublished November 6, 2025\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/section><section class=\"bde-section-8354-160 bde-section light-bg\">\n  \n  \n\t\n\n\n\n<div class=\"section-container\"><div id=\"lsrf\" class=\"bde-div-8354-161 bde-div\">\n  \n  \n\t\n\n\n\n\n<\/div><div class=\"bde-code-block-8354-162 bde-code-block\">\n\n  <script type=\"module\" crossorigin src=\"\/lsrf-assets\/index-BwNOyNEy.js\"><\/script>\n<link rel=\"stylesheet\" crossorigin href=\"\/lsrf-assets\/index-CizCFQu4.css\">\n\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Search Ranking Factors Your ultimate guide to local search success in 2026! By Darren Shaw | Published November 6, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9059,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Whitespark's Official 2026 Local Search Ranking Factors Report: Your ultimate guide to local SEO success in 2026!","_seopress_titles_desc":"Find out what really impacts local search rankings in 2026 with Whitespark's Local Search Ranking Factors report. 47 top local SEO experts weigh in on what's driving real local search rankings today.","_seopress_robots_index":"","_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8354","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8354"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9148,"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8354\/revisions\/9148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whitespark.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}