Ranking above PLACE PAGES

[musillawfirm]

What does it take for results to show up above Place Page results.  It seems like Google Local gets a lot of emphasis .  Any thoughts?

[DanDeceuster]

Google will do what Google will do. Just as results change when the query deserves freshness (think how search results for osama bin laden changed dramatically within two hours) so do some results deserve local emphasis, in google's mind at least. If the places results show up after the top three, then getting into those top three is the same as any other top three. If the places results are showing up before any others, there's nothing you can do to get yours ahead of the places results, that's just where google puts it.

some searches even spread the places results out. A search for payday loans brings up A from the map as #1, then no places results again until #4. The key is SEO is SEO, so always have good, unique content and get good links and you will move up as high as you can.