Google Places Optimisation

[gregster1000]

There are 2 parts to my question,

Part 1 - Does anyone have any advice on how to optimize for google places and do you know of any good links to any resources on this topic?

Part 2 - Is there a way to optimize feed submissions to shopping search engines like google base, shopzilla etc.

Thanks

[gregster1000]

Thanks a lot guys.

[KeriMorgret]

I myself don't use Google Places, as we don't have a storefront, but these SEOmoz resources should be a good starting place for your first question.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/google-places-seo-lessons-learned-from-rank-correlation-data

http://www.seomoz.org/qa/view/50586/google-places-strategy

http://www.seomoz.org/qa/view/50621/google-places-optimisation

[Cyle]

Gregster1000,

Rand did a webinar on this topic a couple of months ago: http://www.seomoz.org/webinars/changes-in-local-seo

this should point you in the right direction for Local Search.

Here is a resource on how to optimize your feed for Google base: http://www.bestrank.com/blog/how-to-optimize-google-base-data-feeds

I am not sure about shopzilla.

I hope this helps,

Cyle