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Google Places Citations - How Long to Aggregate?

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qlkasdjfw last edited by

Hi,

On Google Places we have clients that have bad data (incorrect name, address, #) on aggregated sites (citysearch, merchantcircle, yelp) which prevents those sites from pulling into the Google Places accounts. We've been manually correcting listings for a while and many times it still hasn't pulled into the Google Places listings for months on end despite the data matching.

What are your experiences with correcting aggregated Google Places data, how long has it taken for this data to pull into your places accounts?
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qlkasdjfw last edited by

Our experience as well, generally months on end and an endless stream of duplicated listings. I'm at least looking forward to the listing separator tool they're supposed to release spring/summer '11.
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