I would like to know if google were to penalize my business's site or lower it in SERPs for some reason, does this also affect the business's ranking in Google Places pages and Google + pages, or are these independent in terms of ranking factors. I am going to make some changes to the site and I have a great Google+ and Local Places ranking but not such a good regular SERP's ranking. So if when I make these changes to my website I should drop in rankings significantly in Serp's, will this drop my high rank in Google+ and Local Places pages? I want to add that my website is doing terrible right now in SERP's, and has a Pagerank of zero, but it is doing great in some local searches. Which leads me to believe the factors are independent, but I am curious about everyone's thoughts on this.
I know that as you improve your website’s SEO reputation, then your Google+ Local rankings will improve as well. I’m not sure if the reverse is true, however.
When you say penalise what do you mean? I mena did you have tiop natural results in the top 2 or 3 pages that dropped to page 8 or 9 or what sort of things are you lookig at as penalisation? Not high ranking SERPS can change loads. Now that said I have seen a good plenty of sites in the top 40 or top hundred with very little good SEO and ranks but somewhere below the top 20 say that have good local places results, so it is likely not even connected as no real penalisation as you put it has occured at all. Though I am going by a lot of guess work here as don't know your experience and cicumstances and what you are seeing as being penalised (which I am guessing may not be the case) and that is all I have to go by, so may be way off track at this point.
Here's the story. I'm doing a 301 redirect from my old domain to a better exact match domain. I'm not sure if they will penalize me because it's a 3 word domain and I'm not sure if they will consider it keyword stuffing. So I'm wondering if it does happen to get penalized, will they also penalize and lower the ranking of my google+/places page, which ranks very well right now. And a second question I just thought of--will a new exact match domain even gain beneficial juice from a 301 redirect to the new site, or should the whole site just be moved to the new domain, and just forward the old domain traffic to the new domain for type in traffic. But if I do it that second way, don't I lose link juice from the old sites backlinks. Or will I keep that link juice? I'm kind of in a quandary as to how to do it. The key is does google really give an EMD juice if the site is coming from a 301 redirect. I can't find the answer to this anywhere on the internet. Does anyone know? Thanks
based on my own experiance, google+ has nothing to do with your website's SEO ... maybe you mean GooglePage+
Yes. Google can make out that the local search results and the Google+ page or profile belongs to that brand or a site which is penalized for spammy link building practices and will hence devalue them as well.