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No problem, if you're not already following SEOMoz on Twitter/Facebook I would do so as they usually post once the Linkscape update has been completed

Good timing, it's due today: http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/25141119/Linkscape%20Schedule

http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/25141119/Linkscape%20Schedule

"Our goal is to update the data at least every 4 weeks."

There's an update due on the 18th, also worth following SEOMoz on Twitter/Facebook as they tend to post an update once Linkscape has been updated.

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

The official Google Response is: http://www.google.com/support/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=7091

Looking at the link profiles for a few of them they're certainly not the strongest, the only thing I can see that they have over the competition is the fact that 'Chicago' is in their domain name.

I would imagine from the relevant API's, and I'm guessing it would make sense for them to update those data counts with their linkscape data, otherwise report loading time would be slowed to call up the API each time.

Although this is just guess work as I can't find any info on this in the wiki or about sections for the tools.

(Edit: Also worth noting the Google+ data is currently in Beta)

Hi Susanna,

I assume this data is updated at the same time as the Linkscape data, in which case it's around every 4 weeks: http://apiwiki.seomoz.org/w/page/25141119/Linkscape-Schedule

There's one due tomorrow, so good timing! It's probably worth following SEOMoz on Twitter/Facebook too as I believe they update once the linkscape update has been run.

I've seen some more dramatic shifts over the past few days for UK results at least, from what I've been reading on various forums/Twitter I think there's been some algorithm updates, as a number of sites/webmasters being affected.