What to do with duplicate Listings for Business in Moz Local Tool?
-
Hi Everyone! Just another newbie Local SEO looking for a solution.
I was searching my business listing in Moz Local and it returned two addresses.
Listing #1: 925 B Street #402 San Diego, CA 92101, 67623
Listing #2: 925 B St, #402, San Diego, CA, 92101- Do I need to remove the listing with two zip codes showing up? (I don't see any of my profiles showing up with two zip codes though.)
- Listing #2 is accurate yet the local moz tool tells me that my Google+ page is 69% complete. How is it possible that Listing #1 scored a 97% complete on Google+?
- Would you recommend putting the suite number in Address Line 1 or separated in Line 2? Does it even matter?
Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks!
-
Hi Paul,
Thank you so much for your patience! Our engineers have been able to surface what they feel is at the root of this odd issue. If you got to this Google+ Local page:
https://plus.google.com/100180822171424943321/about?hl=en-US
....you will see that there is no comma between the suite number and the city name. Our tool is very sensitive to punctuation and apparently, this lack of a comma is what we believe is throwing off the results. If you could go to your Google My Business account and fix this issue, we believe it would also then resolve on our end.
Hope this helps! A bit of a weird one, I know
-
Hi Paul,
Just checked again and see we're still returning that odd result in Check Listing for you. I'm going to ask our Engineering department to take a look at this as I just cannot turn up where that weird zip code is coming from. I hope we'll hear from them in the new business week and that they'll be able to provide some insight!
-
Miriam,
Thanks for the response. I did some further research and couldn't find any listings that were using the Kansas zip code that's being pulled in with his zip code. I spoke with my client and he's never even set foot in Kansas. I want to be able to utilize Moz Local listing, but I'm not sure if I should claim either of the current listings. Please let me know if you have any solutions for this.
Paul
-
Hi There!
Well, this is a puzzle! I am searching in all different kinds of ways to figure out the origin of that second zip code an am coming up empty handed. Curiously, 67632 is a zip code for Alton, Kansas, and your client appears to be located in San Diego, California. Is there any connection, in any way, that you can think of with Kansas? Perhaps the business moved from Kansas to California, or something else like this? Please, let me know, because I am just unable to turn up any reference to that second zip code with any version of the business name I'm trying in Google.
Yes, suite numbers should always be on the second address line in your Google+ Local listing.
Both of the listings Check Listing is surfacing for you appear to be pointing to the same Google+ Local page.
The one with the normal zip is pointing to:https://plus.google.com/100180822171424943321/about?hl=en-US
And the one with the odd zip is pointing to:
https://plus.google.com/100180822171424943321/about?hl=en-US
So, same page, meaning I'm not seeing 2 pages (duplicates). I'm only seeing one. This is further puzzling me, then, as to how the percentage of completion is different on the two pages being linked to, when they appear to me to be the same page. Also, Check Listing is incorrectly reporting on the least complete listing that the website URL is unavailable on the page, when clearly, it is right there on the page.
My feeling is that there is something a bit odd going on here with the results we're showing you. Please let me know about the thing about Kansas. I'd like to get this figured out for you!
Got a burning SEO question?
Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
Categories for Google My Business pages - do they need to match terms on website?
I have a chiropractor client with three locations. Because the Chiropractor category is very competitive, whomever originally set-up their GMB pages elected to use the category "Pain Control Clinic" for two locations, and "Medical Center" for the third location. They rank badly for these categories. Their website does not contain many signals for pain control or medical center; it is very much chiropractor focused. Is this something Google takes into consideration when deciding how to rank GMB pages?
Local Listings | | Marce5210 -
Duplicate central index listing
Hello Moz community I have a duplicate listing in Central Index (GB) and all communication channels seem unresponsive. I have emailed support and general sales. I even tried contacting them on their facebook account. I am stumped as to how I can get this duplicate listing removed as I have no control over it and the support is non-existent. Any suggestions would be gratefully received.
Local Listings | | Avid-Panda2 -
Local SEO: How to get local business showing up in Google Local
Hello, We moved to a small town in Council, ID. It's interesting. None of the businesses around here are showing up in Google Local - map, phone number, hours, etc. Nothing. It's all Yelp and stuff. Is there some sort of collective local SEO that has to be done to get Council, ID on the map? It's kind of strange that no businesses show up. I want to help local businesses, but I don't know if Google will even register them. We can get a group of local businesses together if we have to. Let me know what we can do. Thanks.
Local Listings | | BobGW0 -
Which Rank Trackers Include Local 3-pack Rankings?
Granted the Local 3-pack is heavily influenced by the distance between the user and the business, when you actually include the city name in the search, the local 3 pack result doesn't center the map at the city in the search and not the user's location so it is much more consistent despite the searcher's location. So my personal opinion is that it is worth tracking local 3-pack when you use a keyword such as "Home Inspection Seattle Wa" With that said, which rank tracking services includes the local 3-pack in their tracking results, other than of course Bright Local?
Local Listings | | JCCMoz0 -
How to rank same business page in different locations?
Hello all, First of all thanks for answering my previous queries. Now, I have one more query and I am hoping to get best possible answers from you guys. Query: I have one business which is located in one city only and I have a verified listing there (I am ranking good in that city). However, I want to rank the same business page in couple of other cities as well. What should I do considering that I cannot create a new listing for other cities because I have my office in single location only? Looking forward to answers. Brian
Local Listings | | BrianBotts.0 -
UK aggregators of local business data
Hi Guys, I have signed up for Moz Local and I am looking for UK aggregators of local business data to help build my search. Can anyone recommend a source?
Local Listings | | SEM_at_Lees0 -
How does dynamic call tracking affect local SEO?
I would like to begin tracking calls and offline conversions, but I am concerned that if I add a dynamic call tracking software that it will negatively affect SEO.
Local Listings | | FluidAdvertising1 -
SEO ROI for brick-and-mortar small business?
So I've just been contracted to do some on-page and local SEO for a number of websites, and aside from analytics, I don't know how to prove the ROI. Any thoughts on that? For example, how do I prove a restaurant is getting more customers because I optimized their website and established and enhanced local listings (or if that's even the case)? How would I measure that success, especially if there are other variables (maybe they're also kicking off some off-line marketing in tandem ... )
Local Listings | | sbs2190