Google Plus Business Page
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I'm curious to see if anyone has come up against this same thing and how Google will respond to it. I work with a franchise company that has hundreds of locations. The company has unique sub pages set up for each location and a Google Places listing for each location.
My question is can I set up a Google Plus business pages for each location, with the same name (different address), and all within one gmail address.
My concerns are that when you select "Local Business" as the category for the Plus page it asks for a phone number. Well, after I insert the phone number it accurately pulls up our Place listing. However, my concern is having multiple Plus pages with the same Name in the "basic info" section. Will Google Plus reject multiple pages with the same name?
I also don't want to change the name on the plus page and then cause a duplicate listing created in Google Places, due to the same address different name connection. I suspect a merge between Pages and Places so I don't want to negatively impact my Place listings.
Any thoughts on this or Franchise Plus Pages?
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Hello
I got the same issue. In our case we did a page by subsidiary in Google page entreprise and one for the main group in google page.
It's not the best but anyway it's working fine.
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Thanks for the response. My general feeling is to wait and see what they come out with officially, since there's a lot of people that feel strongly that they'll be rolling up Places pages with Plus pages in some format or another.
I think they might do a master brand page on Plus since there's no reason to split everything apart, and then find a good way to show location-specific information on a personalized basis. Just my hunch.
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We haven't created Plus Pages for their locations yet. Too risky since one of our main products is working with their Place Pages.
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No answer but I'd love to hear the solution you came up with for this situation.
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