Google keeps updating/tweaking my Local business branch addresses ? to whats different in my citations and on page. how can I stop it?
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Hi All,
I have a number of branches as we have separate branch pages and separate google local listings for these. I have been trying to keep them in consistent for citation purposes but google keeps trying to tweak the address in the local listings.
Sometimes for example , google is trying to remove the premises number from the Road e.g 78 Doncaster Road is the actual branch address but google local business wants it as Doncaster Road,
I also see Google is wanting to sometimes remove the locality name etc?..
Also If the local listing has a county ( in America - you would have State) , google is sometimes wanting to remove this add United Kingdom in Country instead ?.
Is this a problem and how to deal with it as I think this is obviously impacting my local rankings?.
If i approve all these changes then do I need update all my citations and page addresses all the time ?
Or can I just leave the suggested "Update" or overwrite googles suggestion with what I had originally.
Does anyone else have this problem ?
thanks
pete
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Many thanks Miriam
I will get a citation audit done.
thanks
Peter
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Hi Peter,
This may be one of those things where you'll need to hire a Local SEO to do an audit, but very generally, this sounds to me like you may have citation consistency issues that are causing Google to make edits to your data based on bad data they are finding on third party sources. So, if for example, your client is located at 23 Hello Street, and for some reason, Google keeps changing this to 21 Hello Street, chances are strong that there are bad references out there to your business being at 21 Hello Street. So, the first step I'd suggest is a complete citation audit to discover if there are existing references to the bad data and then correcting these at the source so that the good data supports Google's correct understanding of your location.
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