Google recently made some significant changes to the local search results display by reducing the 7 pack display to 3 pack. This sudden change affected several local businesses which makes it tougher for the local businesses to feature in the local search rankings. And the fact that around 73 percent of all online activity happening in the local search area, this makes it all the more important for SME's to concentrate more on local search optimization.
It’s easy to get carried away with the high national search ranking that your website may be attracting presently but that seems half the work done if you haven’t considered to optimize it locally. But if your company's budget is neglecting these low conversion areas then you are missing a trick or too. This can be a crucial SEO strategy especially after Google's Pigeon update, which negatively hit the local ranking of some of the enterprise companies. So if you are currently feeling left out as far as the local SERP's are concerned then you may need to overhaul your present strategy.