How To Rank Quickly Using Google Places

by Daniel Beer on February 2, 2011 | Category:

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Daniel is a San Diego real estate agent focusing on Santaluz homes for sale. He also has a passion for helping people moving to San Diego and introducing them to the city he loves.

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30 Comments

Bryan McDonald
Posted at 01:35h, 03 February

Great Tip! I am going to modify my listing right now.
Bryan McDonald
Posted at 01:35h, 03 February

Great Tip! I am going to modify my listing right now.
Bryan McDonald
Posted at 01:35h, 03 February

Great Tip! I am going to modify my listing right now.
Bryan McDonald
Posted at 01:35h, 03 February

Great Tip! I am going to modify my listing right now.
Bryan McDonald
Posted at 01:35h, 03 February

Great Tip! I am going to modify my listing right now.
Bryan McDonald
Posted at 01:35h, 03 February

Great Tip! I am going to modify my listing right now.
Bryan McDonald
Posted at 01:35h, 03 February

Great Tip! I am going to modify my listing right now.
Bryan McDonald
Posted at 01:35h, 03 February

Great Tip! I am going to modify my listing right now.
Bryan McDonald
Posted at 01:35h, 03 February

Great Tip! I am going to modify my listing right now.
Bryan McDonald
Posted at 01:35h, 03 February

Great Tip! I am going to modify my listing right now.
Bryan McDonald
Posted at 01:35h, 03 February

Great Tip! I am going to modify my listing right now.
Bryan McDonald
Posted at 01:35h, 03 February

Great Tip! I am going to modify my listing right now.
Bryan McDonald
Posted at 01:35h, 03 February

Great Tip! I am going to modify my listing right now.
Bryan McDonald
Posted at 01:35h, 03 February

Great Tip! I am going to modify my listing right now.
Anonymous
Posted at 02:11h, 03 February

I used this technique for short sale specialist in my area. It worked for certain phrases but the traffic was not worth breaking the terms of use for Google Places.
Jay Thompson
Posted at 04:34h, 03 February

Hmmmm…. from the Google Places Quality Guidelines:

“Business Name: Represent your business exactly as it appears in the offline world.

Do not include marketing taglines in your business name.

Do not include phone numbers or URLs in the business name field, unless they are part of your business name.

Do not attempt to manipulate search results by adding extraneous keywords or a description of your business in the business name field.”

Sounds to me like your statement, “Your business name should be the keyword that you are going after. In my case, I used MLS San Diego” is a violation of the guidelines.

Your tip for categories also appears to violate that section of the Guidelines.

Also in the Guidelines, “Google reserves the right to suspend access to Google Places or other Google Services to individuals or businesses that violate these guidelines”

Hardly seems worth the risk. Generally speaking, Google is pretty adverse to gaming things for search results….

http://www.google.com/support/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=107528
- Bryan McDonald
  Posted at 16:39h, 03 February
  
  Jay, thanks for posting the Google Guidelines for this. I guess I won’t be changing my listing after all.
  - Jay Thompson
    Posted at 17:16h, 03 February
    
    No problem Bryan. People really need to read guidelines and Terms of Service before they try to beat Google at their own game.
    
    Bottom line is, Google employs *really* smart people and they are pretty serious about returning valid search results. Tactics like those described in this post may work for awhile. Maybe even a long while. But these kinds of tactics *will* catch up to those that use them. It’s just a matter of when, not if.
- Bryan McDonald
  Posted at 16:39h, 03 February
  
  Jay, thanks for posting the Google Guidelines for this. I guess I won’t be changing my listing after all.
- Bryan McDonald
  Posted at 16:39h, 03 February
  
  Jay, thanks for posting the Google Guidelines for this. I guess I won’t be changing my listing after all.
- Bryan McDonald
  Posted at 16:39h, 03 February
  
  Jay, thanks for posting the Google Guidelines for this. I guess I won’t be changing my listing after all.
- Bryan McDonald
  Posted at 16:39h, 03 February
  
  Jay, thanks for posting the Google Guidelines for this. I guess I won’t be changing my listing after all.
Jay Thompson
Posted at 04:34h, 03 February

Hmmmm…. from the Google Places Quality Guidelines:

“Business Name: Represent your business exactly as it appears in the offline world.

Do not include marketing taglines in your business name.

Do not include phone numbers or URLs in the business name field, unless they are part of your business name.

Do not attempt to manipulate search results by adding extraneous keywords or a description of your business in the business name field.”

Sounds to me like your statement, “Your business name should be the keyword that you are going after. In my case, I used MLS San Diego” is a violation of the guidelines.

Your tip for categories also appears to violate that section of the Guidelines.

Also in the Guidelines, “Google reserves the right to suspend access to Google Places or other Google Services to individuals or businesses that violate these guidelines”

Hardly seems worth the risk. Generally speaking, Google is pretty adverse to gaming things for search results….

http://www.google.com/support/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=107528
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Lance
Posted at 16:27h, 03 February

Hmmmm… is right. While your techniques may have worked, spammers like you are what kill good opporunties for legitimate business and effort. You should stop.
Lance
Posted at 16:27h, 03 February

Hmmmm… is right. While your techniques may have worked, spammers like you are what kill good opporunties for legitimate business and effort. You should stop.
- Lance
  Posted at 17:11h, 03 February
  
  Just reported you to google – have fun spammer
Dan
Posted at 18:28h, 03 February

Lance I am sorry for the anger this has caused you. I can assure you that I never thought of it as spam or “gaming” as Jay put it. I really am in the business that I rank for and it really is a good search result for somebody to find. Having said that, the article has been removed as I now see how it could be misinterpreted by people for improper use (which I had not considered before) and I am sorry for any misunderstandings.
- Jay Thompson
  Posted at 04:31h, 04 February
  
  Dan – perhaps “gaming” was too strong a word, sorry. It’s commonly used when people talk about “manipulating” Google. I know you didn’t intend to “cheat”. And you are FAR from the only person that employed the tactics you wrote about. (Heck, just look at some of the others showing up in the same search…)
  
  The bottom line is you were trying to manipulate the results, and (in my opinion) were violating the Google Places Quality Guidelines. I don’t think that was intentional at all. But it is what it is.
  
  I have to disagree with you when you say, “I really am in the business that I rank for…” Sandicor is probably the only entity that can truly claim to be in the “MLS San Diego” business. You’re in the business of real estate sales. Providing a home search could be considered function of that business, but it’s not THE business. “MLS San Diego” isn’t your business — it’s an attempt to manipulate search results by adding extraneous keywords or a description of your business in the business name field. And that is specifically against the guidelines.
  
  Google can get very nasty about guideline and TOS violations. I’ve seen entire sites get de-indexed for innocently trying to manipulate search results. It’s just not worth it IMO.