Local Search Forum

My main area of interest in how sites rank for 'web pages', it seems that pages with a title that includes the business name are doing well. It seems to be an attempt to be less reliant on pages that simply list the company amongst many others.

Location is very important in the UK still, an arbitary postcode has been chosen for the center of each place name and if you are closest to it then you are in luck.

I can only comment upon the states. I speak fairly regularly w/ Bill Slawski who has published regularly on patent items including a significant # of issues that impact local and G Maps. I also speak fairly regularly w/ Mike Blumenthal who has commented upon google maps in his blog....blumenthals.com/blog.

I've been following this for sometime.

Unfortunately I don't see enough commentary on the logic of g maps and my testing is pretty limited to a few topics.

I'd rather not generalize on that limited testing basis.

Nevertheless there were changes in the states for various rankings w/in G maps as of 8/9. I was just wondering what others saw and their impressions of the changes.

As for me, I generally saw a more logical ranking...though I couldn't put my finger on what aspects/what weights Google placed on information to rearrange the rankings I saw.