Okay. So I had the top spot for organic rank ( # 1 position ) above the places section. Now it has been eliminated and I am in the top spot for just the places section. What gives?
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So i dont just want to be number in the places section.
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no it wasn't penalized. Well the thing is we had never shown up in the google places section before when we had overall the number one position organically.
I want us to have the ability to show up both in google places and in the organic section at the number one spot. I know that this is probably far fetched but it is a hope
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Was your site penalized? then the places page which was #2 would naturally be #1 now.
Google is promoting places pages more heavily but the worst that would happen would be they are #1 and your site now is #2, your site should not disappear.
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