Google Place listings in SERP results

As you can see from the link http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=e...G=Google+Search google place listings take over at position 3-9.

Whats with so many listings from google places?! Maybe google are planing yet another update to show local searches (from google places) in the top 10 listings for each search or something?

Here is a screenshot of what I see http://www.thegamerszone.co.uk/view/23_vl64r just in case you guys see different.

Whats your views on this guys and do you think this sort of thing could be something we see more of for other searches on google?

i cant believe this is not a large discussion - my clients keyword is showing Google map listings on the entire first page of Google. This sucks...

I read a article and this is supposed to stop sites from ranking in cities that are not located in.

Some of my clients focus on surrounding cities - this really sucks..

I think this could happen in specific niche but it is growing rapidly. I am wondering if the future top 10 in natural listing can be bought with indirect way by purchase via local advertisement or something similar.

i'm wondering if SEO is now a part of the business listings..

My client was ranked #2 for his keyword - and is now #2 in the new business listings.

I also noticed the new listings are only showing up for the word 'dentist'. My other clients have not yet been affected - 'orthodontist' - 'plastic surgery' - 'eye doctor' and others still show the normal results.

most of us SEO pros noticed moren' a week ago...and I'm pretty sure that like me, their client rosters made out okay....oh, LOCAL success notwithstanding means that the time we spent getting clients to work on their LOCAL or Places pages NOW seems rightous, eh!

so the comment here about "not being a large discussion" is moot, eh!



Jim

Yes I noticed this a while ago but not with so many local/places listings at the top of natural listings.

I was just wondering if others have noticed the number of local/places listings go up so high for their clients search terms and if its only in certain niches that this is so high?

Was noticing these results too. Thing to take away is that optimizing for local SEO gets more important.

What I saw was blatant mis-categorization though. A couple of restaurants were labeled as a Sexshop. Don't know if that is competition, or if shady SEO's are trying to get more visitors from local, and resorting to less than ethical techniques to achieve this.

Cant say I have noticed that, but if the later is the case then google will notice and remove the wrong listings in time I guess.

I click on the search link and i only got 3 local listing results. But in my opinion showing a lot of local listing results is not good and most users don't like it. If Google wants to do it, we should call Google search engine, Google local listing engine in the future. I myself ignore local listing results in most cases.

[QUOTE=JVRudnick]most of us SEO pros noticed moren' a week ago...

What is moren'?
Are you suggesting we are not SEO professionals because we didnt notice this sooner? My opinon, if you only focus on local listings your not much of a true SEO specialists..

@fortop...

sorry - "more'n" is a canuck shortform meaning "more than" -- so what I meant by that was that most of us SEO pros noticed more than a week ago..." and we've been testing and analyzing the new Google Blend/PlaceSearch layouts, designs and serp results.....

and as you may not know "focusing" on Local listings is now exactly what SEO is...one algo, one serp Rankings....ie there is ONLY one SEO now...

again, all moot really....as we're ALL in SEO....



Jim

Why would you think this? Is local listings all you focus on? To me, SEO is still on the national/worldwide level - meaning ranking for keywords that have 100-200k searches a month. This is where the competition is, where you truly need to know SEO to rank in the top 3...

Doing local SEO, how many competitors could you have, 1-10?

Please explain why you say/believe Local is the only ONE SEO now..

...sigh.....somebody PLEASE let this idiot know....

I can't say what I want to say. I can't cause I said I'd NOT loose my temper with idiots till the new year...

so pls pls pls...someone point this idiot at URLS that can show him what we all already know...

THERE IS AS OF OCT 25th OR SO ONLY ONE ALGO USED BY GOOGLE TO DISPLAY Web Results with Local built in....

there is NO more seperate indexes and 2 algos....

for god sakes do some research...would you pls....or just get lost.

there. didn't say anything "too" bad....



Jim

PS f*****g idiots....

Are you in this forum to help people or boost your own ego!? People are idiots because 3 weeks have passed with a new algo for local results? Google hasn't even implemented this to all local results it's so new.. But everyone should know about it? Like i mentioned, i personally dont focus on small local results with little to no competition/traffic. Any monkey could get top results for this and beat his chest like he is king of SEO - yes i'm refering to you.

It sounds like you need to take a break from these forums and do some real work. You havent helped anyone in this thread, go make yourself feel important and help your local fruit stand rank for the almighty keyword 'Hamilton Fruit Stand'..

now now guys, no need to get pissed off with each other please!

Jim could you just post a link to what your talking about please ("THERE IS AS OF OCT 25th OR SO ONLY ONE ALGO USED BY GOOGLE TO DISPLAY Web Results with Local built in....").