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Is my Google Business Profile affected by organic rankings?
Rankings for local and organic are weighted differently and act independently.
The organic and maps algorithms have many of the same ranking factors, but the weighting of those factors is different.
The maps algorithm does take information from the associated website into account, as the organic algorithm, but also uses other factors.
Sometimes Google algorithm changes will result in maps and organic rankings moving in opposite directions, proving that the two algorithms act independently.