Local dispensary marketing in Salem city

RISE Dispensary, Roanoke, Roanoke city

Top three on 66.7% of Salem city's measured map, at 10 of 10 squares at least once; average position 1.3 where it shows. Google rating 4.8, review count 1,835.

Blue Ridge Hydroponics and Garden Supply, Salem city

Top three on 36.7% of Salem city's measured map, at 6 of 10 squares at least once; average position 2.8 where it shows. Google rating 4.8, review count 120.

Weed Tiger Inc, Mecklenburg County

Top three on 33.3% of Salem city's measured map, at 10 of 10 squares at least once; average position 1.5 where it shows. Google rating 3.1, review count 9.

Cannabis Culture, Roanoke city

Top three on 33.3% of Salem city's measured map, at 10 of 10 squares at least once; average position 3.6 where it shows. Google rating 4.4, review count 71.

GRN DRMZ, Roanoke city

Top three on 30.0% of Salem city's measured map, at 9 of 10 squares at least once; average position 2.7 where it shows. Google rating 4.8, review count 124.

Ratings: 4.2 against 4.5

The three leaders average 4.2 on Google; the other 4 listings on the board average 4.5. Here the rating is not what separates them, so the work is the profile and the pages behind it.

Review volume: a median of 120 against 98

The typical leader has a Google review count of 120; the typical listing behind it, 98. Volume is earned a shopper at a time, which is why the profile is worked every month, not claimed once.

“weed near me” is a different race

Only 2 listings hold a top-three spot for “weed near me” in Salem city, against 4 for “dispensary near me”; Weed Tiger Inc shows in its top three on 100.0% of the map. A store that ranks for one search can be missing from another, so the guarantee is written to a keyword set, not a single phrase.

The three leaders hold 57.7% of every top-three slot

7 listings hold top-three positions in Salem city, and the first three on the board take 57.7% of them, averaged over every point we read. Everyone else splits what is left.

Who holds the most of Salem city's Google Maps top three?

RISE Dispensary, in Roanoke: it shows in the top three on 66.7% of the 10 map squares we measured in Salem city, across all three searches. Blue Ridge Hydroponics and Garden Supply (36.7%) and Weed Tiger Inc (33.3%) follow. No store on our list sits in Salem city: it is measured where the grids of stores in neighbouring counties reach in (10 map squares). This board is dated October 28, 2026.

Who leads each search in Salem city?

It depends on the search. “dispensary near me”: RISE Dispensary (100.0%); “cannabis near me”: RISE Dispensary (100.0%); “weed near me”: Weed Tiger Inc (100.0%). The same listing rarely leads all three, which is why a ranking plan covers a keyword set rather than one phrase.

Is my Salem city store on these pages?

No store on our list sits in Salem city so far, so none has a page here. This board is read from the grids of stores in neighbouring counties that reach in; a store added to our list here gets its own page once it is scanned.

What counts as a lead-gen listing?

We tag a listing lead-gen when its name is spelled with lookalike letters; when the same dispensary-style name sits on three or more listings at different addresses that carry next to no reviews; or when a dispensary-style listing that is not on our store list borrows another company’s brand, or has next to no reviews and a short link for its website or a tagged network’s name. Real chains are excepted, and a check by hand can add the tag to a listing or take it off. Tagged listings stay on every board in the position Google gives them, because shoppers see them there. In Salem city, tagged listings hold 0% of every top-three slot across the three searches.

How is the share of the map in the top three measured?

We read Google Maps at 121 points around each store on our list, for each search, and place every reading in a map square about a quarter mile on a side. A store’s share is the part of an area’s measured squares where it shows in the top three, counting a square in part when it holds the spot in only some of the readings there. The combined board averages the three searches. Overlapping grids are counted once per square, so a busy downtown does not count twice. The full method: how we measure.

How often is this board updated?

Every scan round re-reads every store's grid, and every page here is rebuilt from the readings; the first round is dated October 24, 2026. This board's readings are dated October 28, 2026.

Do you guarantee rankings?

A written top-3 local ranking guarantee — Dispenza’s own offer; the keywords, radius and time window are set in your agreement (see terms). Terms apply. Ask for the guarantee terms on your demo call before you sign anything. The guarantee covers the local keyword set agreed for your trade area, over a defined window.