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thanks for the info could you please expand on what you mean by more local citations?  are citations sites such as : Google Places/Local, Yahoo local, Foursquare, Hotfrog, Yelp and much  more. as was described above by @westleysmits ?

Thank you very much for the both thorough and terrific answer.  I have another question.  I have tried to contact google maps ( Google Map Maker ) on several occasions asking them to change the website url that the business listing is pointing to each time they deny it for some reason, I'm not exactly sure why,  so I was thinking perhaps I'm better off creating another business entry same address, different website, and using our toll free number,  ideally I would prefer to just update the original listing but can't seem to get the reviewers to do it..  I will try once again.  maybe that explains why our competitors have several listings.. I think changing the business listing to point to our new website url is very important so that I can then follow your instructions and have everything to point to the same correct new website..

Hi,

I think its called local search position, what I'm referring to is when you do a search on a keyword and google lists not only the best matches but also usually the second match is a group of 3 businesses with telephone numbers, google reviews and at the bottom of the group it will say something like:  "See results for <your keyword="">on a map.  This is what I'm referring to.  in anycase my question is if I click on the link to see more results on a map I'm listed as number 3, however on the search page before where the link is displayed which I just clicked on I'm not being listed and instead one business name is being listed three times,  each of the listings uses the same address but a different telephone number,  In addtion the business that is being listed three times is also listed in the results being returned above in this case position #1 for the keyword I have searched.  I assume this has something to do with them also being listed in the group of local businesses below three time..  The business I'm interested in getting listed in this group of results is currently being listed page 2 position 5 for the keyword..</your>

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated..

Thanks in advance..

Hi,

I think its called local search position, what I'm referring to is when you do a search on a keyword and google lists not only the best matches but also usually the second match is a group of 3 businesses with telephone numbers, google reviews and at the bottom of the group it will say something like:  "See results for <your keyword="">on a map.  This is what I'm referring to.  in anycase my question is if I click on the link to see more results on a map I'm listed as number 3, however on the search page before where the link is displayed which I just clicked on I'm not being listed and instead one business name is being listed three times,  each of the listings uses the same address but a different telephone number,  In addtion the business that is being listed three times is also listed in the results being returned above in this case position #1 for the keyword I have searched.  I assume this has something to do with them also being listed in the group of local businesses below three time..  The business I'm interested in getting listed in this group of results is currently being listed page 2 position 5 for the keyword..</your>

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated..

Thanks in advance..