Google Places verification
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What advice do you have for achieving verification for Google Places for a client?
I have a client at the moment and I tried getting the call sent through and I'm not sure what happened but a couple of tries at this did not work. I've tried the post card way and I'm still waiting.
Do I need to be more patient in Australia for this verification post card?
Is there a way I can verify the info myself?
note: I have set up a seperate email that there business email to handle a lot of the link building but this is different to there business email which Google uses.
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I'm not sure if it was related to postcard delays or not, but Google Places had some outages up until recently. I'd recommend being patient with the postcards as well - you can re-request a PIN, but if you do so and the original card shows up it'll no longer be valid. sigh Phone isnt always an option either - if you're claiming a listing chances are you'll have to wait it out until the card arrives.
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We use a call center to handle our leads, and ideally wanted that to be the number on the Google places rather then a direct line. Essentially we just called up the call center ourselves and told them that the call will be coming soon, then asked them to write the code down, then they just emailed it over.
So long as your customers aren't too computer-illiterate I'm sure you could just pre warn them about the call to make sure they're prepared for it.
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we have an automated phone system and needed Google to send the card. The important thing is to get it verified.
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This is probably the advice I needed. I will make an effort to make clients a little more aware of the importance of this and to really keep an eye out for the postcard. Thanks Hansjorg.
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Hi Daniel,
If you click the submit button in you Google Places account, Google makes the call right away - should "normally" be no big deal. I made the experience though, that sometimes the customers are overburden with that phone call option, that's why I mostly take that postcard option. It can definetifly be up to one month or 5 weeks if they get the card. I just tell the customer several times that they have to look at their mail very properly because this post card with the pincode is very very unimpressive.
In the Google Places profile is the address and phone nr° of the business location - so you only have the chance to verify it by yourself if you are present when the phone call or the sms from Google comes in.
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