Google Places weblink advice
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In your Google Places listing on the website link option should this point to a specific location based page for your business?
For example my company have several locations in different towns and cities, at present they all point back to the homepage, but should they point back to a specific location based page on the website as I am sure Google looks at the website link for location based text and it its pointing at the homepage which has generic title and h1 tags etc and does not cover location based text then the Google Places listing ranks lower as it displays the meta title in the places result?
This is the only thing I can think of because the listings that appears top 2 have no additional info, no photos, no reviews etc while my listing has a description, images, video etc and the centroid location is nearer to the centre of the city than many of the others so I am at a loss again to work out why Google is ranking this so poorly in Local Search?
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From the horses mouth so to speak: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/give-each-store-a-url/
If it was for a business with just a few locations, I would have a locations page with details for all on one page, neatly sectioned out, or if there's quite a few locations I would split them off onto individual pages.
Also worth noting to ensure that Google Places doesn't have any duplicate listings for the locations: http://www.google.com/support/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=183009
Hope that helps