{"id":6353,"date":"2020-09-14T09:03:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T08:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bronco.co.uk\/our-ideas\/?p=6353"},"modified":"2025-08-27T14:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:47:09","slug":"google-rewards-local-listings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bronco.co.uk\/our-ideas\/google-rewards-local-listings\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Rewards & Local Listings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Most people that work in the industry will have heard of Google Surveys<\/a> & Google Rewards. If you haven’t, here’s a very brief run down. If you’re wanting market data, you can easily setup a paid Google Survey which then pushes out to the relevant people on Google Rewards, who get a small cash reward for their time in filling out the survey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google Rewards is a mobile-based app and, whilst not necessary having GPS enabled, it does give you a lot more surveys. Being based in a larger city also helps as you hit more physical locations; you often get them for just passing UK national stores such as Argos, Tesco & Screwfix.

We have seen recently that Google has been running their own surveys based on what would appear to be based around Google business listings, what a user searches for and how we trust the information found. For example, I was looking for “PTS Plumbing Ripon”, a group of trade plumbing shops that mainly cover the middle and north of the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Plumbing Trade Supplies Locations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

PTS, Plumbing Trade Supplies or City Plumbing have a really poor online presence, so here’s the Google Survey that I got, along with the top 5 organic results that I see. Watch the GIF below to see each question:
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1st Survey<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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What makes this slightly more interesting is that as I wrote this, I needed to grab some SERP data so had to search “PTS Plumbing Ripon” again a few more times and, lo and behold: ping!<\/em><\/strong> A new push notification from Google Rewards popped up asking about my SERP for “PTS Plumbing Ripon”. Below are a few slides from this review:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Google is clearly working on improving local listings and does a poor web presence in the organic listings, get reflected in a local listing position. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is this a sign of Google being confused on what “I was looking for”? I never clicked through to any website or visited a physical location, however I did use the “Call”option. If your local listing is also uncared for, there have to be knock on effects of this. Get in touch <\/a>with Bronco for our SEO service<\/a> today so we can help your local listings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most people that work in the industry will have heard of Google Surveys & Google Rewards. If you haven’t, here’s a very brief run down. If you’re wanting market data, you can easily setup a paid Google Survey which then pushes out to the relevant people on Google Rewards, who get a small cash reward […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":6362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"class_list":["post-6353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-search-engine-optimisation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronco.co.uk\/our-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronco.co.uk\/our-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronco.co.uk\/our-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronco.co.uk\/our-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronco.co.uk\/our-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronco.co.uk\/our-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12817,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronco.co.uk\/our-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6353\/revisions\/12817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronco.co.uk\/our-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bronco.co.uk\/our-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bronco.co.uk\/our-ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}