Just received an email from the great WebProNews which addresses an issue that we’ve been talking about as web geeks for a while now; why Google have stopped showing web / SEO services local business listings on their results pages.

A bit of a tidbit from the piece, which is a quote from the Google Maps help thread posted by a Googler named Joel H:

Today, we’re intentionally showing less local results for web design / SEO queries. For example, [web design sacramento] doesn’t display local listings today. We believe this is an accurate representation of user intent. In some cases, we do show local listings, More >