Help with Google Places, local listings & Google+ please!
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Hi all,
I work for enterprise app development & mobile consultancy, Mubaloo.
I recently asked a question around getting better rankings for London-based search results. One answer was to set up a local listing for Mubaloo's London office. I thought I had done by setting up our London office up on Places for Business - is this the same as a local listing?
In addition to this, I can't connect our existing Google+ page to our local Mubaloo Bristol & London listings as Google has created separate pages for each! Is anyone else having this issue? Can it be resolved?
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Hi Clair,
Regarding the connection between the various types of Google pages, check out this excellent Mike Blumenthal post:
http://localu.org/blog/merge-google-pages-usually-cant-now/
And here's another one:
http://localu.org/blog/kind-google-plus-page/
Regarding your question about a local listing - a 'local listing' is kind of a vague term. It could be a profile of your business on literally any platform. Google-specific lingo these days is that you can create a Google+ Local page using the Google Places for Business dashboard. There are other types of Google pages, as well, described in the above articles.
Hope this helps!
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Hiya,
I'm not sure if its available as each local listing is different more info is here -
https://support.google.com/plus/answer/2659170?hl=en-GB
You can always try to move people towards a main brand page.
The idea is you search for a business locally (be it office or restaurant) you want to leave a good review for it not the brand. Its like a fast food place its no good having a country (or even global) review for the place you want to know what your local fast food restaurant is like.
So unfortunately its a bit unavoidable but you can maintain one larger brand page to interactive with people. there may other solutions I don't know of but I hope that helps.
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Hi,
Thanks for your update and I followed the link and login to double check again. In the individual location there is still no option on the Goolge+ page. It rather generates a google+ page for me when I create a new location.
I think it doesn't allow us to connect location to an existing google+ page because these are locations not business?
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Hiya,
Best bet is to check here - http://www.google.co.uk/business/placesforbusiness/
in there you can also see what Google plus account is associated with your listings. if you don't see a listing you may need to "claim" one.
local and places are essentially the same there are some difference but for most results the above link is the quickest and best way.
hope that helps.
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Hi,
I have the same issue looks like there isn't an option to connect a location to a specific g+ account. I'll update once I've got more info.
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