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Add your competitors into this tool here:

http://www.seomoz.org/labs/link-intersect

This will find the most common linking pages between your ranking top 5 competitors, which means you have a higher chance of getting a link as multiple competitors have links off these pages.

Aim for the pages which have the higher mozrank

Do this first as it's the lowest possible hanging fruit you can find.

thanks Dunamis.  I see that could be the issue here as there are 3 businesses in the same office here, which could be the reason for loosing the citations on the places page.

thanks for the response Dejan. - no, it's not blackhat, it's the other 2 businesses in the same office. It's a shared office. - and yes, looks like someone went through to give every single site in the top 20 besides themselves a 1 star rating - I don't see the true local listing in the maps listing

This site citations have dissapeared from the 'more about this place' and looks to have effected the maps ranking by dropping the listing a few places:

http://maps.google.com.au/maps/place?hl=en&ie=UTF8&q=stella+settlements&fb=1&gl=au&hq=stella+settlements&hnear=Perth+WA&cid=9895804169495459418&z=14

The citations that have been removed are:

http://www.truelocal.com.au/business/stella-settlements/burswood

http://www.hotfrog.com.au/Companies/Stella-Settlements

http://www.yellowpages.com.au/wa/burswood/stella-settlements-13951907-listing.html

(all of these are listed on other competitors citations currently)

(also the places page is using the reviews on Truelocal.com.au listing above which is strange)

Do you know why these citations listings have been removed, however these have not been removed on competitors places pages by Google?

thanks