Google places question

fad3r

Power Member

Sep 17, 2011

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• Jun 13, 2012

• #1

Hi,
Has anyone ever seen a legit site above a google places page? Ok as I was writing this I found one. If you google lawyer maryland you will find a site > places pages > sites.

Can anyone explain to me if it is known what factors google uses to choose to put a site above the places?

Thanks

 

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Pricelance

Newbie

Jun 14, 2012

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• Jun 14, 2012

• #2

I was literally just thinking the same thing. Hopefully someone has an answer out there

 

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Kaithe.Clarke

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Jun 3, 2011

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• Jun 16, 2012

• #3

This is quite an old change in local search results. this has been happening since february and I wonder people have started noticing it now. It seems that there were some experimental changes in Google search results.

 

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Peppery

Newbie

Oct 18, 2009

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• Jun 16, 2012

• #4

Google changed everything recently so Google Places is now done through Google+. Such a pain to revitalise their failing social network...

 

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MatthewMagicMan

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Dec 20, 2009

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• Jul 5, 2012

• #5

Just good ole' SEO.

The best thing to do is use a different URL for your places listing, i.e. subdomain or subpage so you get 2 rankings on Page 1.

 

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reinie

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Jan 16, 2009

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• Oct 26, 2012

• #6

Seen it a few times when places pages aren't very popular and the regular site has some decent SEO. Not to hard to do. but happens mostly in areas that arent highly populated

 

futurestic06

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Apr 16, 2011

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• Oct 26, 2012

• #7

No Idea about Google Place dude Sorry

 

0scan0

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Apr 9, 2010

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• Oct 26, 2012

• #8

I have a few websites ranking over the local search results. It's just a thing about authority, I also thinks Google favour my webiste as I have Adsense on it an the other are just regular legit website without Adsense.