Do you think that google places have influence on organic search?

[guidoboem]

Hi everyone,

Do you think that google places have influence on organic search? i mean if you are on google places with your companies, your ranking must be better for that query? isn't it ?

if you agree with me i'll bring you this stange case:

my clients has a company profile on google places but it is only fourth on the organic results for that query and his competitor is ranked first with:

• no google places profile
• no authority
• and no company in the city ( in fact it is not in the city but 30 miles far )

the query is "poltrona frau brescia"

poltrona frau= name of the company

brescia= city in wich the company is located

thanks

poltrona-frau-brescia

[MiriamEllis]

Hello Guido,

Google's choice of display for certain queries is often mysterious. And, while you are being organically outranked by the competitor with no apparent local presence, your blended listing is likely drawing more eyes to it because it is special and larger. I would not look at this in terms of you being harmed by your participation in Local, but rather, that you have sent strong local signals to Google that are rewarding you with that very visible blended listing. What makes this a little different is that, for the moment, Google is choosing the display in which a few organic listings are preceding the local/blended ones. But, I do believe your client is better off than his competitor, in this case.

Miriam

[KevinBudzynski]

I think it complements it as opposes to helping it. With blended search results, the google local result may appear higher than the organic results for your actual site. But does it actually help your organic position? Probably not (at least not by much), but definitely would not hurt you. The stronger influence of organic rankings is the overall popularity of the site.