Last week's leak of Google Search API documentation has broad SEO implications relevant to local search, including the importance of SERP clickthrough patterns, site architecture, sitewide signals, page-level scoring, quality raters, mobile-friendliness, and the prevalence of entities. The leak also reveals specific details about local search, such as the role of categories, local intent, query pa
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