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What Every Local Business Should Monitor: Most Popular "Near Me" Queries

Stacy Mine

Editor at Serpstat

Search queries with near me have been a trend since 2016. Now, according to Google, 46% of search queries have a local intent. Impressive, yep? This means that any small or international business can use local SEO strategies to attract new customers.

I collected the most popular local queries for the USA, the UK, and Canada that you can use to grow your business.

Local search query usually contains a location or near me/nearby keywords.
If Google knows your location, then you don't even need to include such keywords. So, Google understands what you are looking for, and offers you results or suggestions based on your location.

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Local SEO is one of the most popular promotion direction. Implementation of an adequate strategy for local promotion can provide the business owner with leadership in his city in a relatively short period of time.

Google claims that local results are based primarily on relevance, distance, and prominence. These factors are combined to help find the best match for your search. For example, Google algorithms might decide that a business that's farther away from your location is more likely to have what you're looking for than a company that's closer and therefore rank it higher in local results.

We collected local search queries for 4 categories (food, shopping, entertainment, and services) in 3 countries - the USA, the UK, and Canada. You can use our keywords tool for your promotion strategy and gain leadership.