How to Rank in Google Place Results
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.
