Google local / Rich snippets in multiple locations
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Hi All,
Something i'm trying to understand about Google local but cant find precise info about what we are thinking of doing.
We are located in City A, but also provide our services in almost every city in our country. We broker the service to branches that don't have their own local websites and want to take advantage of being listed in each city by marking up the address of each branch on each of our specific branch pages.
All our pages are currently marked up using the physical company address. Would their be any issues marking up separate branch pages to the corresponding branch address, and then taking advantage of Local results in many areas around the country?
In other words,
Is it possible for a single website to mark up separate pages for different locations and take advantage of local results for each?
Thanks in Advance
Greg
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Hi Andre,
I'm not sure I totally understand your original question. You are only entitled to creating a Google+ Local page for a business for which you own the business name, address and phone number. If other companies (with different names, addresses and phone numbers) re-sell some of your services under their own companies, you should not be attempting to appear in control of those businesses. They should be creating Google+ Local pages and doing Local SEO for their own businesses with their own NAP (name-address-phone). I'm sorry if I'm not correctly understand the business model. Feel free to provide further detail if you're not sure you've gotten the right answer.
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I think I've answered my own question..
We cant get local listings for each branch location as we need have a G+ profile for each etc, but can do rich snippets and other markups that will separate these pages from the rest of the serp results.
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