Winning the Local Map Pack
Three spots. Everyone wants them. Here's how to take one.The three results in Google's local map pack capture the lion's share of clicks for "dentist near me." If you're not one of them, you're losing patients to practices that are simply optimized better.
When someone searches for a dentist in your area, Google shows a map with three highlighted practices above the regular results. That box — the local map pack — is where the overwhelming majority of local clicks and calls go. Ranking inside it is the single highest-impact SEO goal for most dental practices.
Most owners assume their position is fixed, or based on how long they've been in business. It isn't. Local rankings are driven by specific, improvable signals — and the practices in the pack are usually just the ones working on them.
Here's what determines local ranking for dental, and where most practices fall short.

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