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Google has revealed significantly more about its local search ranking factors, and it's the kind of info you can immediately use to enhance your own site's local ranking. An expanded Google Help page lives up to its title, "Improve your local ranking on Google," as highlighted in Search Engine Land's April Fools' Day post. This is no joke, however. It's not so much about change--the same three local ranking factors as before are there--relevance, distance, and prominence. It's more about