So there has been a lot of skepticism about the importance and perceived value of web references and citations as far as ranking factors go for Google Local.

So there has been a lot of skepticism about the importance and perceived value of web references and citations as far as ranking factors go for Google Local.

Organisations The Internet Library Catalogues Local ... OSCOLA (The Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal ... of the Library, Bournemouth University; How to reference ...

I think I referred to them a local web page references (as opposed to citations) and wrote about them in What does a link campaign look like for Local?

A.D.Martinez, R.Wachenchauzer and R.D.Lins. Cyclic reference counting with local mark-scan. Information Processing Letters, 34:31--35, 1990.