We’ve mentioned David Mihm’s Local Search Ranking Factors article before – it’s a crucial guide to the ins and outs of how Google (in particular) determines where in the Google Places results a local listing will show up.
Each year David Mihm surveys a number of top SEO practitioners regarding the local listing results they’ve seen, [...]

I found this tool recently; it’s a great way to quickly check on the status of your – or a prospect or client’s – local listings in the major search databases:
GetListed.org
Here is a look at Everon’s results for our listing in Broomfield, CO:

It’s got some great features, like being able to save your listings to [...]