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Miriam -

Thanks for your helpful & quick response.

The 15+ business listings are individual dealership locations (ie Lexus of City Name & Toyota of City Name) are all currently grouped within one login so I (the dealership group's SEO guru) can manage all the information/implement best-practices from one single login.

We are debating setting up different @dealerdomain.com accounts if there is a SEO benefit.  I am wondering how the Google+ & Google+ Local merging will happen regarding dashboard admin, so I'll wait to do anything until after that happens.

You confirmed what I was looking for, "There is no SEO benefit, at least not that I've ever heard of, of going with one account vs. multiple accounts in this scenario...."

And you are correct, separating out the Google+ Local from the multi-account setup is a big job if we decide to go the domain-based email address direction. We are currently weighing the pros & cons related to, "Google apparently trusts the domain-based email address to be more authoritative."

Any further insights appreciated.

As a automotive dealership group, we have 15+ business listings set up under one Google+ local account. Google+ Local (Google Places) offers the ability to upload a data file for 10+ listings, so we've kept all listings under one login for efficiency.

Is there any specific local SEO benefit or any general benefit at all to having each business listing set up under their own separate email address?

The large city (A) Annexed small city B (in 2007) where we have a few car dealership locations.

The problem is that the post office still recognizes city B, so for the most part our citations are still for city B, but we want to have local optimization for City A AND also have consistent address information across the website (citations).

What are your suggestions on going about this the right way so we are optimized for the large city & our citations are consistent?

I sat in on the Microformats & Schema.org – Real life Use Cases webcast today. Thank you for providing that helpful information.

This discussion question is related to microformat in relation to online reviews:

I work for a local auto dealership group. Each of our dozen+ dealers have reviews on Google, dealerrater, cars.com, edmunds, etc.

Is there a SEO benefit to compiling online reviews from multiple sources mentioned above into our site in a microformat (knowing the reviews existed elsewhere) or would we have to use a third party tool such as Bazaarvoice & capture our reviews through there?

Have any of you pulled reviews from various sources onto your site & used the microformatting technique? If so, what was the outcome?

Thanks

We are a dealership group, we have 2 locations that have multiple brands/multiple business names. IE Chrysler store along with smart... and Infiniti along with Mitsubishi.

On Google Places, we can only claim one location per business (based on their guidelines), yet these brands are different.

Any suggestions on overcoming this obstacle?