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For blog posts do you think it is better to use something like "Atlanta Plumbing Company" or "Choosing an Atlanta Plumbing Company" (article title). I have been using the article titles but I think it might be hindering rankings a bit. I use to use the keyword but it seems a bit spammy now.

I want to create titles for the readers but rank well too.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

Thanks again for all your help!

Thanks again for the info! Both locations are in the same city. They are a few miles apart. I have never had much of an issue ranking business in Google Place before but I have not done much with multi-location.

Do you think it makes a difference if both locations are on the same contact page or is it better for each location to have their own page on the website?

Also, I should just build citations back to the main index page correct? Not to the contact page(s).

Thanks again!

Jason

That was my thought. The listing has come back. It is showing up for some keywords but not as many as before. I am going to give it more time and build more citations. Hopefully this will help!

Thanks so much for taking the time to respond. It is the latter. Same thing that is happening in your example.  I am doing a search for the actual business name. The problem is the client wants both of his locations to show up when someone searches of the business name. He would like the main site to show up then the map listings below.

Here are some examples:

http://www.google.com/#q=lucky+labrador&hl=en&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS525US525&biw=1440&bih=695&fp=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&cad=b

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS525US525&sclient=psy-ab&q=stumptown+coffee&oq=stump+town&gs_l=serp.1.0.0i10l4.59092.61164.0.62754.10.10.0.0.0.0.230.1483.3j3j4.10.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.5.psy-ab.c7FLLfIqVMA&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=95c9c19312d4e19&biw=1440&bih=695

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS525US525&sclient=psy-ab&q=voodoo+donuts&oq=voodoo+&gs_l=serp.1.0.0l4.18726.20917.2.22084.10.7.0.3.3.1.273.596.5j0j1.6.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.5.psy-ab.VkZYup4syyE&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=95c9c19312d4e19&biw=1440&bih=695

The new listing is about 1.5 months old now. We have been consistently building citations since then.

Both Google Maps listings have the same name and the same website in the account. The adresses, phone numbers, faxes, etc. are different though. It's the same restaurant just 2 locations.

Any ideas you have would be great!

Also, I have a few other tricky Google Places accounts I am working on. Do you do any type of phone consulting? Might just need 15mins of your time.

I am seeing the same thing happening. Check out the seomoz title in the search results. The company name and title tag are getting flipped.

Yes. Both locations have their own phone number, fax number, and location.

Right now both Google Places listings link back to the main page. We did create individual pages for each location though. Each page has separate info, map, etc.

Thanks for the reply!

Hi everyone,

We have a company that hired us to set-up their Google Places listing for their 2nd location. The listing for the 1st location is very strong. Lots of reviews, Zagat rating, Knowledge graph, etc.

In the search results the Google Places listing for the 1st location has merged with the website listing. You can see the link to the main site w/ a small grey google places listing directly below it.

The client would like BOTH Google places listing to show up in the search results.  They both show up on the map listing but not in the search results.

Each location has its own listing in Google Places. We have also created different pages on the website for each location.

Is there a way to get the search results to display places listings? I have noticed a few other business have done it by naming each of their multiple locations something slightly different. Then the search results seem to realize there are multiple locations and display the places listing in the search results.

Anyone run into this? Any ideas?

Thanks!!

Hi everyone!

I have a client that was ranking very nicely for a number of keywords. In the 5 pack for most of the keywords we were targeting. His account went under review for some unknown reason about 2 months ago. It disappeared from the listing... Then a few weeks ago it became approved again.

He is now no longer ranking for any of those keywords. He is ranking for some obscure ones but the money words are gone.

Do you think this was due to the review? Some sort of GP update over the last 60 days?

All of my other clients are still ranking strong in Google Places.

Any ideas?