DXL - 9:51 am on Jan 28, 2008 (gmt 0)

How do you rank for local generic results? If you don't rank well in regular results you can't hope to rank well in the local business results either.

That's completely incorrect, as sites that aren't remotely optimized or ranked well are sometimes ranked very well in the local results.

Have you changed your address recently? If so that can result in a drop in rank in local business results for several months - been there, done that.

I changed addresses, though I don't understand how Google would have determined that. My site still displays my old address, only the phone company itself knows that I moved. I can't understand why they would have simply deleted my listing, rather than update it, assuming they did have access to the phone records.