Google + Local Pages

[Bryan_Loconto]

Hi,

If I have a company with multipul addresses, Do I create separate Google + page for each area?

[Bryan_Loconto]

Hmm, what about a G+ business page that is not verified?  ie if I want to post something on a G+ community as the service company, I can not do that without a company page... Is it really best to delete the company G+ page? Lets say wee add a G+ button to our site, that links to the G+ page, correct? Do we not have the same privileges other sites do because we are a service?

[MiriamEllis]

Hi Bryan, If you have a Google+ BUSINESS page, yes, Google is saying to delete it now, and yes, manage multi locations via the old Places dash. For more on this deletion thing, read this: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/business/technical-issue/MI5yJcP1pJ8 It won't affect every business, but it will affect service radius businesses who built a Google+ Business page. Take care!

[Bryan_Loconto]

Hi Miriam,

Thanks for the response.

In short if we have a multi location business it's best to use the old places dashboard, and if it's a services only niche, such as a cleaning service, it's best to delete the Google + places page. Correct?

[MiriamEllis]

Hi Bryan,

Unfortunately, at this point, multi-location businesses are still not being supported by the new Google+ Local system. There is no way to link multiple Google+ Local pages within a single brand and you should not attempt to create a Google+ Local page for each location or to try to merge them. Clark has linked you to an early article on this from Mike Blumenthal from around the time that Google rolled out Google+ Local, but read one of Mike's more recent posts on the huge amount of issues going on with this before you make a move in any direction:

http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/11/28/having-issues-with-your-glocal-social-merge-my-advice-dont/

So, for multi-location businesses, you can still create a listing for each unique address via the old Places dashboard, but should not try to create a Google+Local page for each of them. At some point, this will be possible, but it hasn't happened yet, so you will need to stay tuned into the news on this which is constantly being updated. Just last week, for example, Google announced that all service radius businesses have to delete their Google+ Business page (if they have one). This is a brand new rule that will affect countless businesses adversely if they don't happen to hear about it. Point being: with all things related to the whole Google+ system and especially with Google+ Local, you've got to stay on top of the news on a daily basis.

Hope this helps!

[clarktbell]

This is a post from Blumenthal on the subject --> http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/08/03/step-by-step-guide-to-the-google-businesslocal-merge-verification-process/

This is from Google Product Forums --> http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/business/cLdShAg9xYs[1-25-false]

In short yes, I have found you will need to create seperate pages for each location. This is a pain in my opinion and is something I wish G+ would clean up.