Hi, I am newbie in forums. I would like to know about how can improve Google Local listing. Regards, Albiemorkel
Mentioning the specific place on your content, include those places too in your anchor text and get backlinks from related sites with close geographic location to your site like local directory listing..
its been discussed on google webmaster central forum.. hope it helps: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Webmasters/thread?tid=27dc9ac11784afdf&hl=en
make your content of your site good-quality regularly make backlinks of your site regularly make your keywords obvious and wide range
Apart from others suggestion above, I would recommend you reading this quality sources - 7 Ways to Improve Your Google Local Business Listing. It is easy to understand and helpful.
One of the best ways to improve your local listing is to get good clients of yours to give you reviews. If they can include your most important keywords in their review, that helps even more. Just make sure to let your clients do the reviews. Google can easily trace back fake reviews if you abuse the system and they will penalize you for it.