Here is a featured post from one of our very active members Nick Pratt. It has some great info that will help you power up your Local exposure!
There are lots of good screen shots that help clear some of the confusion about the different options and there is a nice easy section about how to do "Authorship" markup.
See it on Scoop.it, via Google Places Optimization & Local SEO News
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