Technical Approach of an Old Wisdom…

With the recent launch of Google Place Search on October 27, 2010, the SEO community has been uneasy on how their sites would perform. I’ve seen few of our client sites dropping from Position 1 to Page 3 results, while some have retained its first page rankings.

We have done some few research and found out that Place search do still use some major Google Organic Ranking signals in its algorithm — still factoring in the number of inbound links, anchor text, link authority and some basic onpage factors such as title tag. Without official confirmation from Google, this is nothing but pure speculations –no different from “bounce rate” conjecture as a ranking signal.

In order of priority

1. Use emails listed in “Link page” , or follow any links for contact forms or links which the site admin suggested for link suggestions.
   • For link suggestions, email admin@web.com.
   • Contact admin@web.com for comments and feedbacks.
   • admin@web.com (even any email ad which the ADMIN listed in link page)
   • For more information, e-mail admin@web.com
   • Use contact form(with link to http://www.web.com/contact-link-request) for link recommendations
   • Email found in sidebar of link page
     E) sbdc@tcnj.edu
   • Found in footer section of Link Page
     “Suggest links, articles or ideas to include on this site”
     Note: Following this will lead to https://jedi.tcnj.edu/webteam/cgi-bin/formgenie/formgenie.pl?form=11520 which is a form for link request

This is a study I conducted on my first month (December 2008) of exposure to SEO under "Research and Analysis" team.

Introduction:

The anchor text or link label is the visible, clickable text in a hyperlink. It can be in External Links (links from other sites), internal links (links on your pages), navigation maps, and links on your main page.