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Hi Luke,

What exactly do you mean "moving a listing"? As Sida mentioned, there isn't such a thing as moving a listing from one account to another.

I think this article by Mike Blumenthal will really help with your 2nd question. His blog is a great read for anyone tackling Local SEO and the comments are always filled with quality discussions.

http://blumenthals.com/blog/2013/05/21/google-starting-to-convert-existing-dashboards-to-the-new-places-for-business-dashboard/

The article you linked to suggests making a "duplicate page of your existing listing" and then "Google will merge your old Places listing data into it".

• The term "duplicate" scares me this is the first time I have seen someone propose the idea of creating a duplicate listing rather than advising on how to delete/avoid duplicates
• As far as merging goes- http://localsearchforum.catalystemarketing.com/google-business-pages/4058-dont-merge-google-local-g-business-pages.html

Hope this helps!!

Is anyone else experiencing issues with Yahoo! Local listings when trying to make edits?

It seems SUPER buggy right now.

Just curious is anyone else is having the same setbacks.

Thanks!

Right now the ability to transfer management of Google listings from one gmail account to another is not available. You would release the listing from your account and the new manager would have to find it on Maps and claim it in their gmail account.

Hi Wendy,

I agree with William- claim, edit, verify the listings manually.

Listing a business on these sites requires getting to know your client and their services and the process can be very detail oriented. I think Yext lacks this attention to detail.

Has the business moved? Changed their business name? Have tracking numbers? Are they already listed on some of these sites but with information that doesn't match exactly to what you've provided? These are questions that "powerlisting" service providers don't seem to ask. All they need is your current business information and off they go. BUT some time is saved...for now.

Here is another point of view from Nyagoslav at NGS marketing on Yext-

http://www.ngsmarketing.com/why-yext-might-not-be-the-best-fit-for-your-business/

Thanks, Bryan!

We seem to share the same opinion of Yext and their services. Super disappointing when I see that local.com is falling under this blanket.

Also, localeze no longer offers free business listings. Luckily, our client was already listed so I was able to claim it and make the "one change a year" to the listing. As a result I have substituted expressupdate for localeze.

Again, thanks for the responses!

Thanks, Bryan!

Looks like I will have to call customer support. Every route I take to claim or "enhance" the listing redirects me to Yext.

Appreciate the feedback, though.

Have you tried the Redirection tool when you login to the back-end of the site?

Hey guys!

Is there any way to edit a business listing, for the first time, on local.com without paying Yext?!

Don,

It sounds like you just created a G+ Business page, correct? And that you may have duplicate Google+ Local/Places listings.

Unfortunately I am unable to recreate what you said you are seeing when you Google "Google+ Columbia Engineered Rubber".

I do see two locations in Maps with the same URL that is associated with the page you referenced above:

2501 Thunderhawk Ct, Dayton, OH

875 Center Dr, Vandalia, OH

Can you attach a screenshot of the 3 results? There are a few ways you can go about handling listings with wrong business information but I would just need a little bit more information.

Hi Miriam,

Appreciate your feedback on this. Your reasoning is exactly why I chose to hide the address in the first place but, after the client questioned my decision more than once, I started to wonder if I was almost being too strict.

That response was the reassurance I needed to keep it hidden. Well, that AND avoiding a potentially endless dialogue with Google!

Thanks!

Don,

It sounds like you just created a G+ Business page, correct? And that you may have duplicate Google+ Local/Places listings.

Unfortunately I am unable to recreate what you said you are seeing when you Google "Google+ Columbia Engineered Rubber".

I do see two locations in Maps with the same URL that is associated with the page you referenced above:

2501 Thunderhawk Ct, Dayton, OH

875 Center Dr, Vandalia, OH

Can you attach a screenshot of the 3 results? There are a few ways you can go about handling listings with wrong business information but I would just need a little bit more information.

Hi Robert,

I am going to give you a few resources I turned to when I first began citation building.

http://getlisted.org/resources/local_search_ecosystem.pdf

http://getlisted.org/resources/local-citations-by-category.aspx

http://getlisted.org/resources/local-citations-by-city.aspx

http://www.seomoz.org/directories/local

From these I create a "Top List" based on my client and their situation.

Also, I think once you dive in to this process you will find your focus shifts from "how many of these can I get my client on?!!!" to making sure the quality of your existing listings and directories is high.

All the Best,

Amber

Hi Luke,

What exactly do you mean "moving a listing"? As Sida mentioned, there isn't such a thing as moving a listing from one account to another.

I think this article by Mike Blumenthal will really help with your 2nd question. His blog is a great read for anyone tackling Local SEO and the comments are always filled with quality discussions.

http://blumenthals.com/blog/2013/05/21/google-starting-to-convert-existing-dashboards-to-the-new-places-for-business-dashboard/

The article you linked to suggests making a "duplicate page of your existing listing" and then "Google will merge your old Places listing data into it".

• The term "duplicate" scares me this is the first time I have seen someone propose the idea of creating a duplicate listing rather than advising on how to delete/avoid duplicates
• As far as merging goes- http://localsearchforum.catalystemarketing.com/google-business-pages/4058-dont-merge-google-local-g-business-pages.html

Hope this helps!!

Your best approach would be to edit the address in Google Places for Business rather than marking it closed and creating a new listing for the new address.

Linda Buquet addresses this topic in detail here-

http://localsearchforum.catalystemarketing.com/moving-name-changes/3138-business-moves-procedure-changes-again-just-edit.html

Hope this helps!!

Right now the ability to transfer management of Google listings from one gmail account to another is not available. You would release the listing from your account and the new manager would have to find it on Maps and claim it in their gmail account.