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🏆 Need a website built to rank in every city you serve?
We build location page websites using the same structure I use across 47+ businesses → https://bit.ly/location-page-websites
📍 Already have a website but not ranking in your target cities?
We run full local SEO campaigns for service area businesses — multi-city strategy, location page audits, and ongoing ranking management.
✅ Free Local SEO Strategy Session (Limited Spots) → https://bit.ly/strategy-session-with-steve
Starting around April 7th, Google began quietly penalizing thin location pages, impacting website authority. This google algorithm update can lead to pages being effectively removed from the index, dragging down the entire domain. To avoid a google penalty recovery situation, it's crucial to address low value content and focus on seo optimization, ensuring your local seo strategy is robust and defensible. Check out these seo tips to protect your site.
✅ What you'll learn:
📍 Why the April 7th algorithm update changed the stakes for thin location pages
📍 The cannibalization signal most businesses miss in Search Console
📍 How to identify and cut dead-weight pages that are dragging down your rankings
📍 A 3-point quality audit to classify every location page as cut, fix, or keep
📍 The growth protocol: when to publish new pages and when to stop
🔗 Related videos:
✅ Google Is Penalizing These Location Pages in 2026 → https://youtube.com/watch?v=qf6lpnZ4jl8
✅ Location Pages Failing? Here's Exactly What's Wrong → https://youtube.com/watch?v=bDkJyRcSarc
✅ Service Area Businesses: How to Rank in Cities You Don't Have an Office In → https://youtube.com/watch?v=OZgbKX4PoBE
💬 Drop a comment below with how many location pages you currently have and how many cities you serve — I'll tell you whether you're in the safe zone or the danger zone. I read every comment.🔔 Subscribe for weekly local SEO strategies that actually work for real local businesses.#localseo #locationpages #thinpages #googlebusinessprofile #localsearch #seo2026
⏱️ Timestamps:
00:00 The April 7th Penalty: Why This Matters Now
00:37 Welcome to The Branding Agency
00:53 The Pattern I See All the Time
01:28 What Changed on April 7th
01:49 The New Cost of Thin Pages
02:24 Why "Just Make It Unique" Is Useless Advice
02:51 Uniqueness Is the Entry Fee, Not the Strategy
03:20 Don't Copy Your Competitor's Page Count
03:44 So How Many Is Too Many?
04:01 The Search Console Signal to Check Right Now
04:22 How New Pages Cannibalize Old Pages
04:51 The Fix: Cut Pages That Never Earned Their Spot
05:25 Check Before You Publish Anything New
05:43 Thin vs. Young: How to Tell the Difference
06:02 Audit Check #1: Impressions in Search Console
06:17 Audit Check #2: Real Local Knowledge
06:50 Audit Check #3: Internal Links
07:07 What to Cut vs. What to Save
07:23 Your 4-Step Protocol Going Forward
07:38 Step 2: Watch Search Console
07:53 Step 3: The Net-New Local Data Test
08:15 Step 4: Wait 30-60 Days Between Pages
08:43 Quick Recap
09:07 Related Videos & Next Steps
09:26 Drop a Comment + Subscribe
We build location page websites using the same structure I use across 47+ businesses → https://bit.ly/location-page-websites
📍 Already have a website but not ranking in your target cities?
We run full local SEO campaigns for service area businesses — multi-city strategy, location page audits, and ongoing ranking management.
✅ Free Local SEO Strategy Session (Limited Spots) → https://bit.ly/strategy-session-with-steve
Starting around April 7th, Google began quietly penalizing thin location pages, impacting website authority. This google algorithm update can lead to pages being effectively removed from the index, dragging down the entire domain. To avoid a google penalty recovery situation, it's crucial to address low value content and focus on seo optimization, ensuring your local seo strategy is robust and defensible. Check out these seo tips to protect your site.
✅ What you'll learn:
📍 Why the April 7th algorithm update changed the stakes for thin location pages
📍 The cannibalization signal most businesses miss in Search Console
📍 How to identify and cut dead-weight pages that are dragging down your rankings
📍 A 3-point quality audit to classify every location page as cut, fix, or keep
📍 The growth protocol: when to publish new pages and when to stop
🔗 Related videos:
✅ Google Is Penalizing These Location Pages in 2026 → https://youtube.com/watch?v=qf6lpnZ4jl8
✅ Location Pages Failing? Here's Exactly What's Wrong → https://youtube.com/watch?v=bDkJyRcSarc
✅ Service Area Businesses: How to Rank in Cities You Don't Have an Office In → https://youtube.com/watch?v=OZgbKX4PoBE
💬 Drop a comment below with how many location pages you currently have and how many cities you serve — I'll tell you whether you're in the safe zone or the danger zone. I read every comment.🔔 Subscribe for weekly local SEO strategies that actually work for real local businesses.#localseo #locationpages #thinpages #googlebusinessprofile #localsearch #seo2026
⏱️ Timestamps:
00:00 The April 7th Penalty: Why This Matters Now
00:37 Welcome to The Branding Agency
00:53 The Pattern I See All the Time
01:28 What Changed on April 7th
01:49 The New Cost of Thin Pages
02:24 Why "Just Make It Unique" Is Useless Advice
02:51 Uniqueness Is the Entry Fee, Not the Strategy
03:20 Don't Copy Your Competitor's Page Count
03:44 So How Many Is Too Many?
04:01 The Search Console Signal to Check Right Now
04:22 How New Pages Cannibalize Old Pages
04:51 The Fix: Cut Pages That Never Earned Their Spot
05:25 Check Before You Publish Anything New
05:43 Thin vs. Young: How to Tell the Difference
06:02 Audit Check #1: Impressions in Search Console
06:17 Audit Check #2: Real Local Knowledge
06:50 Audit Check #3: Internal Links
07:07 What to Cut vs. What to Save
07:23 Your 4-Step Protocol Going Forward
07:38 Step 2: Watch Search Console
07:53 Step 3: The Net-New Local Data Test
08:15 Step 4: Wait 30-60 Days Between Pages
08:43 Quick Recap
09:07 Related Videos & Next Steps
09:26 Drop a Comment + Subscribe
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