Google places listing gone crazy
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I have a google places listing that was doing great and was consantly on the top 3 for most of it's keywords.
About 3 weeks ago google declined my listing (it was on the same account with other listings that violated google guidelines).
The listing still showed up on google while it being reviewed (i assumed that it because this listing didn't violate an guideline.)
About a week ago google started showing reviews from Insiderpages with my listing that belonged to a competitor.
Today, they fixed that and added a link to my right insiderpages page but weird things started to happen....
My listing started to appear as a NON VERIFIED liting.
My website is no longer on the listing.
The phone number listed on the listing belong to a competitor!!
All the citations are still mine including one from my site!
Should i report it to google? i'm hesitating to do so, we are loosing a lot of business as it is with most of our listings down and i'm afraid this might be a small error that if i'll address will take longer to solve.
Thanks!!
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Chris, Thank so much for the great tips. I didn't quite understood how will I be able to create a new listing and have it up and runing in days with google having to mail us a postcard, etc. Can you please explain how should I do this? Also, regarding the domain email. Do you mean Mydomain@gmail.com as the account the listing is on? Or info@mydomain.com as the contact email on the listing?
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Places is very... dynamic. It looks like your listing may have gotten accidentally merged with another listing. Which is unfortunately all too common. 1. Check out the places support forums. 2. Read blog.blumenthals.com and consider contacting Mike Blumenthal... He is like google's unofficial global support desk for places. 3. Consider deleting and recreating the listing. Do it with a fresh google account that is an email address from your domain. That could put you back in action in days, not months!
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