Robert_Charlton - 5:04 am on Jan 28, 2008 (gmt 0)

I'm wandering if anybody know, if any method exists to place business in local business listings on first page of Goggle results.

wdny - With regard to the map results, I again suggest you take a look at....

How To Get My Business To Show Up As A Map In Google SERPs
Maps at the top of Google's SERPs
[webmasterworld.com...]

To very briefly summarize, you need to have a physical location and phone number in a city, be listed in Google Maps, be consistently listed in directories from which Google draws data, and have good reviews from (trusted?) local sources.

There are several other threads I've also recommended for your reading, along with some regular reading in the WebmasterWorld Local Search forum.

I should mention, btw, that if you don't have an actual physical location in a city, you may have a hard time faking it. Google's got so many cross-references now that I think creating a brick and mortar establishment, with a good local reputation, out of thin air would be tricky at best.

Sites that rank organically are ranking by traditional SEO methods... ie, page title, content, site navigation, and inbound links. Location names, of course, would be part of this optimization.

The map results may in part be a shot at nationally-based, geo-organized, vertical directory type sites. It will be interesting to see whether searchers accustomed to using these will be pulled away by by the more prominent Local Map results at the top... and also, if they are not, whether Google will eventually make these map results less prominent.

[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 5:16 am (utc) on Jan. 28, 2008]