# We rank first on Google in our own district, but four kilometres away nobody finds us | Illia BizTech > A driving school in Leipzig-Plagwitz, same address for five years. First in the map pack locally, absent entirely when searched from Probstheida. Source: https://illia-biztech.de/en/forum/we-rank-first-on-google-in-our-own-district-but-four-kilometres-away-nobody-finds-us 1. [Home](/en) 2. [Forum](/en/forum) 3. We rank first on Google in our own district, but four kilometres away nobody finds us # We rank first on Google in our own district, but four kilometres away nobody finds us A driving school in Leipzig-Plagwitz, same address for five years. First in the map pack locally, absent entirely when searched from Probstheida. * ##### Asked on August 21, 2026 We run a driving school in Leipzig-Plagwitz and have been at the same address for five years. If I search for a driving school in Leipzig on my phone in our own district, we come up first on the map. Last week I was at my sister's in Probstheida and typed the same thing. Seven other driving schools came up and we did not appear at all. Leipzig is in every heading on our website, and in the Google profile we entered the whole city as our service area. Nothing changed. I do not understand why Google apparently does not treat our city as one city. #### Answers ![Portrait of Illia Belichenko, technical specialist at Illia BizTech](/_ipx/f_webp,q_75/https://cms.illia-biztech.de/uploads/small_Illia_Belichenko_author_81f88864f0.png) ##### Illia Belichenko ✓ Accepted answer August 22, 2026 Google does not treat Leipzig as one city. What it goes by is the spot where the person searching is standing. For local results Google names [three factors: relevance, distance and prominence](https://support.google.com/business/answer/7091?hl=de). Distance is measured from the searcher, not from the city centre and not from your listing. In Probstheida you are simply the more distant option, and no amount of text on your site changes that. That is the uncomfortable half of the answer: this factor is not yours to move. The service area field does not work the way its name suggests. It states where you travel to, not where you get found. For a driving school with a fixed address it does nothing for the map, which is why filling it in made no difference. That leaves the other two factors, and you can work on both without moving premises. Prominence means reviews, mentions, links, directory entries. Relevance means your profile and your pages say what you actually offer, licence categories, intensive courses, vehicles, rather than the city name in every heading. Separate pages for each district are the obvious route and the one that goes wrong. Fifty pages where only the district name changes are doorway pages as far as Google is concerned. Two or three pages with real content about the districts where you genuinely have students, with meeting points, test routes and photographs, are a different matter. You can also check your visibility without driving across the city. There are tools that query the map results across a grid of points, and then you can see plainly how far your radius actually reaches. ##### #### [The quote was 6,000 euros and the invoice came to 9,500\. Do we have to pay it?](/en/forum/the-quote-was-6-000-euros-and-the-invoice-came-to-9-500-do-we-have-to-pay-it) September 5, 2026 [](/en/forum/the-quote-was-6-000-euros-and-the-invoice-came-to-9-500-do-we-have-to-pay-it) #### [The confirmation email from our contact form lands in customers' spam. Why?](/en/forum/the-confirmation-email-from-our-contact-form-lands-in-customers-spam-why) September 4, 2026 [](/en/forum/the-confirmation-email-from-our-contact-form-lands-in-customers-spam-why) #### [We received a letter about Google Fonts demanding 170 euros. Do we pay?](/en/forum/we-received-a-letter-about-google-fonts-demanding-170-euros-do-we-pay) September 4, 2026 [](/en/forum/we-received-a-letter-about-google-fonts-demanding-170-euros-do-we-pay) #### [Our shop window carries the company name in German and Upper Sorbian. How do we write it on Google?](/en/forum/our-shop-window-carries-the-company-name-in-german-and-upper-sorbian-how-do-we-write-it-on-google) September 3, 2026 [](/en/forum/our-shop-window-carries-the-company-name-in-german-and-upper-sorbian-how-do-we-write-it-on-google) #### [What counts as a normal cost per enquiry from Google Ads?](/en/forum/what-counts-as-a-normal-cost-per-enquiry-from-google-ads) September 3, 2026 [](/en/forum/what-counts-as-a-normal-cost-per-enquiry-from-google-ads) **Share** **Topics** * Google Business Profile * local visibility * Leipzig