In general the listings with the most sites associat usa email database ed with them find their way to the top, but thats not always the case. Let's look at one last case study and I'll bring it all home. Here is the data for 'San Diego Resume', a low competition market in this region. Keywords entered into business listing As you can see, these listings are not very well optimized by the business owners and in fact (not shown above), some of them aren't even resume services but are staffing agencies.

Quantifiable Listing Facts avg # web sites for top 3: 6 avg # web sites for bottom 3: 1 avg user content for top 3: 1 avg user content for bottom 3: 0 avg # reviews for top 3: 1 avg # reviews for bottom 3:0 avg distance for top 3: 5.6 avg distance for bottom 3: 3.1 Ok, this most recent data at least provides me with some useful information on how google works in uncompetitive markets.