Friday, March 7, 2014

The Next Google Places for Business or Google + for Business

Google is ready to roll out the newer Google Places for Business Platform, to legacy listings owners, that have been through Google's up's and down's and down's with the old platform. The duplicates are no longer just a duplicate issue, Dup's will now cause your listing to go off line. Remedy, remove duplicate listing, even though, you claimed them because they showed in results and the were from a syndicated feed. Or you claimed the duplicate in attempt to get access to reviews back, or just control the listing you have no idea where it came from. Some may not get this email from Google, most likely you are new to Google Places/+ and did not fight the battle of listing ownership, good for you. For those that do get this email, your next to upgrade, take action.

If you recently received an email from Google that begins:


“We’d like to inform you that Google Places no longer accommodates more than one authorized owner per business location. Your account contains one or more listings that have been identified as duplicates of other listings and as a result, some of the information you provide will not be shown to Google users anymore…”
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