I have noticed that over the past few months websites of local companies are ranking above national companies with large website and hundreds of back links. For example, "san diego widget makers" has 2 companies with only a few back links ranking 1 and 2. One has a PR of 2. It seems like Google is boosting the ranking of companies that are local as opposed to national companies in a geographic keywords. Am i wrong on this or is there another factor involved?
[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 6:45 pm (utc) on Dec. 20, 2007]
[edit reason] removed specific search terms [/edit]
