Backlinking to your Google Places listing.. good or bad idea?

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Just a thought, if you were to post a link to your listing as a backlink would that improve overall search positioning?
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  • Profile picture of the author healthtourism
    Yes it helps specially in local search.
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    • Profile picture of the author KristofferIM
      Originally Posted by healthtourism View Post

      Yes it helps specially in local search.
      Based upon what? I bet this person haven't done any testing himself but is only taking a guess.

      You should be building backlinks when you want to rank in Google Places but not to the listing itself.

      If I where you I'd focus about 90% of the backlinks to the website that's associated with the Google Places listing. The other 10% is links to your citations.

      Hope that helps
      -Kristoffer
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  • Profile picture of the author Drewry_Media
    I never knew having a Google Places listing can boost SEO and increase search traffic. Who has experienced such goodness from doing something like this lately?
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