Google recently did an update and now Google Places which used to be called Local Business has been merged in organic search results in many cases. That mean that the relevance of the place is more relative to your sites organic result than the your local business result. I have many problems since the change and the most annoying is that my google places listings show active but their is no place page. I have fixed anything that remotely resembles a percieved quality issue but with no luck. Have others experienced similar and found a way to fix them?
The best way is target more generic search term to avoiding compete with local results. I have some problem with it but cannot found the best solution for now.
the recent changes has made it mandatory to optimize place place page as you optimize your website specially when there is (keyword + city) involved. optimization of place page is totally different because you cannot get high rank by simply making links (anchor text) pointing to your place page....no use the only thing that effects place page is citations i know how to build them