Google Places

[cottamg]

My client offers training from many locations within the UK.

These locations/venues are not owned by them, however I see no problem in setting up a different listing for each location in Google Places.

At the end of the day if a user searched for “Training London” they are looking for somewhere that they can book a course that would be in their local area. As my client has a “venue” there I think there is a good argument to say that your listing would be valid.

What are your thoughts.

[summitseo]

The fact they don't "own" the location doesn't matter.  Many small businesses don't "own" the locations, they are leased.  I'll bet the client in this case leases space to hold their training classes.  It would be appropriate to to have a places listing for each location.  In the addresses they can just create arbitrary suite numbers to indicate that they may not be the ONLY business in that "place."

[Julich]

Nice trick

[perfectweb]

This is something that interests me as well. One of my sites has a very similar setup to you, and I ahve considered doing the same (submitting all of the venues to Google Places with the comapny name and h/o phone number)

I have refrained from doing this so far though, and my reasoning is as follows. If the venue (in your case training location) is already registered will Google mind? Can you have multiple business registered at one address?

The second reason I've not done is that it feels a little spammy. The business doesn't necessarily own the venues (training locations) so why should you be listed for them?

I wonder how this works for serviced/shared offices?

[cottamg]

They would use a Head Office telephone number, same for each listing.

I have seen other companies with multiple listing with the same telephone number, so I am presuming that Google alllow this.

[Julich]

Does your client have a specific phone number for each of this places ? If not, I'm not sure if you can register a place for each of their "venue".