earlpearl - 10:21 pm on Nov 19, 2007 (gmt 0)

One person with familiarity with how the data sources work that supplied the bulk of Google Maps data on businesses suggested "getting" an address as close to a city center point as possible. Possibly that would work. You would need to reenter your information in G business center. I have yet to see a report on that working. Its not a bad idea.

You should review the patent info on G maps. There are a number of characteristics or influences that seem to have an effect on G maps rankings such as distance, reviews, "citation sources". In one case we saw a google maps search for "gun shops cityname" show a link to a Boy/Girl Scouts website show up. We believe it was because of the strength of the "citation"/link.

If not in the central location I'd look hard at getting local/topical strong citations and reviews. They seem to have a strong impact beyond distance from a central point.

Dave

[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 12:51 am (utc) on Nov. 20, 2007]
[edit reason] removed specifics, incl city name [/edit]