Google Places Pending for months..
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We are a franchise with over 80 locations. We have bulk uploaded all our places pages and all but 15 of them have been approved...this was over 2 months ago!!!
Any idea why the final 15 will not stop "Pending Review"?? Google has been no help!(of course)
It seems the information is correct across Yelp! CitySearch, and Yahoo Local...
Any ideas?
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Wouldn't life be great if Google Places just had a customer service department? I think we would all be willing to pay a service fee, just to get someone on the line.
That said. I agree with Aaron. Before you do, we are seeing problems with residential addresses, when the places account www is the same as the others. (Like a franchise main site). So you may want to look at-
Make sure the address and phone is unique.
Make sure every locations address and phone number is on the URL used in places, and clearly marked. Home page and contact page are important. You may want to have individual unique pages for each location if you don't.
Add the location city or ID into the name. Example. Paul's Shoe Box Aurora
Extreme measures may include developing a individual site for the locations with a unique URL.
Good luck!
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This is not what you are going to want to hear but we had a similar problem... All we could do was delete and re-submit the pending pages. Ended up going quicker that way. Best of luck!
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