Backlinks effect on Google Places position?

Here's a quick question: during the last month I've built some backlinks to a dentist site (not in my town/country). Today I have checked the site rankings for a few keywords and noticed that it's on a top position in... Google Places... Could that be some "side effect" of the backlinking campaign? Or does it have other causes? Thank you.

Bogdan

Abo2870,

I would say no. The backlinks you build to the website count for that website and not the Google places listing. Are you typing in location specific queries when testing for rank position in SERP's for your client? If so, this is probably why you are seeing the places listing (and you have probably optimized it well). Google introduced the Vencie update which was designed to deliver better results based on a user's location.

Here is a good writeup on venice,

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/understand-and-rock-the-google-venice-update

Best,

Shawn

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