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60% -- keyword competition reduction neighborhood vs citywide for neighborhood-specific vs city-wide local SEO keywords (2025)
Competition for neighborhood-specific local SEO keywords is often 60% lower than for city-wide terms.
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2025
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60
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30
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45
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95
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Uprankd
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https://polarismarketingsolutions.com/plumbing-local-seo/ ↗
Source Article
Plumbing Local SEO: A Guide to Dominate Local Search
A lot of plumbing owners in Fort Myers call after the same thing happens. They search their own services, see another company in the Map Pack, and realize the phone is probably ringing at a competitor’s office instead of theirs.
That frustration is valid. Plumbing local seo isn’t a branding exercise…
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Cited from Uprankd's guide on mastering local SEO for plumbers; described with 'often' qualifier, methodology not described.
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neighborhood-specific vs city-wide local SEO keywords: 60% keyword competition reduction neighborhood vs citywide. Source: Uprankd (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/neighborhood-keyword-competition-gap
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