Open Site Explorer: Link Popularity & Backlink Analysis Tool. Hunch. FAQ. Labs. PRsitelist.com - Free Press Release Distribution sites. Social Page Evaluator. How to SEO for Google PlaceRank | Net Magellan. Google has sent QR Code stickers to about 190,000 businesses across the US that have been tagged as a (they have a mobile version of their website). Favorite Places are the mobile equivalent of Place Pages (aka Google Places). Example of a Favorite Place Google Video explaining Favorite Places TechCrunch has quoted Google Earth VP John Hanke, “Google will be adding these businesses incrementally. ‘They are selected based on their ,’ says John Hanke, VP of Google Earth, Maps, and Local. PlaceRank isn’t new – but I believe this is the first acknowledgment of its use with Google Maps in a local search context.
Undoubtedly, Local Search SEOs will be excited by a new unit of measure (will we get another green pixel bar? The patent offers some clues about the ranking algorithm. [0047] In an embodiment, this ranking, which can be referred to as place rank, is computed based on the weighted contributions of various non-cartographic meta attributes about a geospatial entity.