Google Places: Multiple Entries
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Hi there
I'm doing some SEO for a restaurant/bar/night club. Now I'm wondering whether I should create multiple entries on Google Places or one for all. I had in mind: one for the bar/night club and one for the restaurant, as the target audiences for those can be rather different.
We have only one address (and one website), but several phone numbers, so it would be possible to have several entries.
What's your opinion: One or several entries?
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Use Google Mapmaker to see what Google already has indexed as far as business name, etc. But you should only have one listing. If you have multiple addresses, then you can have more then one listing but you must have a unique phone number for each listing.
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Thanks
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That is ok, if they are trully different locations.
google merges listings if the think you are using different unit numbers in the same buiding, there have been cases where say 2 lawyers in the same building have had their listings merged where they have done nothing wrong.
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What's the score though when you have multiple offices, sometimes you see on a contact page, offices in, then unique address for each building along with numbers etc.
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word!
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Yes better to have a Ford you own than a Ferrari you stole. Maybe not in the short term, but in the long term its the better approch.
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thanks Alan!
Sometimes it's a good choice to just refer to Google guidelines I guess... at least while I'm wearing my white hat
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Hi Phillipp
The guild lines say not to, the idea is one listing per place.
- "Businesses with multiple specializations, such as law firms and doctors, should not create multiple listings to cover all of their specialties. You may create one listing per practitioner, and one listing for the hospital or clinic at large.* Do not include information in address lines that does not pertain your business’s physical location (e.g. URLs, keywords)."
http://support.google.com/places/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=107528
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