I’ve been reading WarriorForum posts and started noticing a common theme for suggestions on how to penetrate the top “Google Places” spots in relevant searches.
Most of them center around three main points:
- Getting them more customer reviews by asking customers for reviews.
- Adding multiple forms of media to them (videos, pictures, etc.)
- Backlinking them with appropriate keyword specific anchor text.
I have not attempted to boost a Google Places ranking before, but I bet that most people do well without getting them thoroughly backlinked — but I bet it couldn’t hurt! All three ideas sound on target, because there really aren’t many more variables to manipulate other than those, to be honest.
By the way, if you’re interested in searching internet marketing forum posts I’ve setup a special google configured to just such a task! We’ll call this the SEO Search Engine. These forums are where I go to feel out new areas of theory for SEO, and I find the best way to navigate them is by using google to search through them!