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We're just about to breakout our citations as we've added listings for a few real estate offices and dental offices for the individual real estate agents/dentists.

I didn't see any discussions on best practices, so I thought I'd start the discussion (please point me elsewhere if I missed it)

1. Is it even a good idea to build citations for a practitioner in an office (Dr. Who, Dentist, in addition to Whoville Dental Office)?

2. Name will be different, address will be the same, but what about phone #? Should they use the office phone # and their extension? Or a separate (cell) #?

3. Website citation: Should it go to their "profile" page on the website? Or home page?

Thanks in advance for any input

We're not too worried about the wrong name right now, as Google thinks that it's a neighborhood. The service area is correct. We're pretty sure it will resolve itself once reported enough times.

The merging action happened automatically. Here is another one https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/115095730384671234906/115095730384671234906/about

All I had to do is go into the places dashboard and it had created the G+ Local page, already verified.

https://plus.google.com/b/108665495185264150824/108665495185264150824/posts

If you look at this page, the address is hidden. Only the city is showing. It's a weird name/not sure why that happened. This was done through the places dashboard on Friday.

We noticed yesterday that many of our clients with hidden addresses are now able to get a verified G+ page through the Places dashboard.

Anyone else have any insight on this? Are they classified as "Local" pages, or just verified "Business" pages?

Oh yah, and blocky is a word according to: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/blocky

The blurred background it just confusing. If it was transparent, and the info box showed the background image underneath instead of a duplicate, I think it would be better.

Did you also see that Google Places pages that are listed as having "Service Areas" can now be automatically upgraded to Google Plus pages? Its a slow roll-out, but we're seeing it done when we log into accounts! Sometimes we have to go in and delete the old G+ Business page to leave just the G+ Local page.

I logged into several accounts this morning and have noticed Google Plus has changed their cover images/layout... again! When I edit the cover image, it only allows me to pick the old ratios.

What do you think?

Here to stay?

Was there an announcement or anything about this?