Dear DP members, Are you familiar with the ranking system called PlaceRank? Have you tried doing SEO for Google PlaceRank? How do you find it? Let me know your ideas about this, guys. Thanks!
TechCrunch article: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/06/google-local-maps-qr-code/ google will be adding these businesses incrementally. "They are selected based on their placerank," says John Hanke, VP of google Earth, Maps, and Local. placerank is like PageRank for places It tries to figure out how prominent a place is based on factors such as "references on the Web, reviews, photos," says Hanke, "how many people know about it, how long its been around.