By: Nina Anthony
Hi Mike. David Mihm just pointed me to this post after I asked him a related question. A former employee had created some regional office Places pages (all pointing to the same url: wesst.org) under...
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Hi Nina Flattery will get you everywhere! Thanks. Glad both LocalU and this were useful.
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Hi, Where there is a previous Places account for a Maps index entry then once you have claimed and verified your own Places entry do Delete and Remove from appearing in Maps. This will break the link...
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By: Jo Shaer
Hey Mike, I came to research this because I just read somewhere else that you should “always claim/create your Place Pages within a Google Account using your TLD…”. I didnt realise that you could set...
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@Jo Email at a domain is one of the many factors that Google uses when computing trust. It is always better to have more trust rather than less but sometimes it is nigh on impossible to set up an...
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@Jo I agree with what Mike wrote, i’m suggesting not to touch the listings. BUT When competition will increase you’ll must have more good ranking factors by your side, hence i’m suggesting- try to...
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There is a way to overcome the previous SEO company’s category & picture data, by reporting it as bad information via Google’s report a problem process. This takes patience and time, but eventually...
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I have a client who has lost their login info for their google places page. Their listing shows up in google maps… but when I enter in the country and phone # google is telling me there is no listing....
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@Donna B Yes create a new listing that is identical to the old listing. Google will likely merge the two in their next purge/merge cycle but to speed it along you can report it via their “Report a...
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Is this legal? There is a company that was closed, but has a Google page and it has a #3 position. Is it legal, if I take this position and modify the business information into mine, including change...
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Valentina Legal or not in the end it will cause significantly more problems for you. Rank does not follow the listing it follows the data for the listing and doing what you are suggesting will hose...
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Hi Mike, Me and my partner recently started up a Local Mobile Marketing Firm specializing in Local SEO Campaigns and Mobile Optimized Websites. We just finished running sales for the first week and we...
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I’ve got a client who has a verified google + local page and can’t remember who owns it. I am a manager of their original business places page but I need access to the verified page. How can we find...
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@Charlene you need to go into your preferred Google MyBusiness account and attempt to claim and verify the page. It will send an email to the current “owner”. Check all know emails and see if you still...
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