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Get Help at the Google and Your Business – Google Product Forums

The old Google Places Help Forum has now been renamed the Google and Your Business – Google Product Forums.

If you are having issues or problems with your Places entry or the new +Local Business page under you +Profile which you have merged with the Places Google+ search result then you can get help here.

The top contributors including myself as SQLPerformance can give you guidance for self help.

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!categories/business

Our Google Places Blueprint offers a self-help guide to filling in your own Places entry with 15 minutes consultancy from me for any issues or ranking help. I offer this via email, Skype or a phone in service.

http://www.googleplacesblueprint.com/

A SEO client of mine has made this YouTube video for me

Good luck with your Places entry and +Local Business page.

Cheers. Andrew B.Sc. MBCS C.Eng CITP

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Google+ Local Help

Jun 23 2012 Published by admin under Google Plus Local, Google+ Business, Google+ Local, Yext Power Listing, Yext PowerListings

With the new changes Google+ Local has replaced Google Places in the blended Maps search results. Or Google Plus Local.

The first option is to go to the Google Product Forums – Google and Your Business and try the Help Articles. For some issues like Pending Review you may find an answer in the Google+ Local Help Forum. You need to be aware posts in there are indexed so use shortened URLs and do not give emails.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/business

If you are making a new Google Places entry, which shows as a Google Plus Local page, I do the technical support for a Google Places Ebook which is a comprehensive guide to making a good entry compliant to all of the hidden rules as well. I offer 15 minutes of consultancy with the purchase for advice and troubleshooting.

Soon the current search Google+ Local page which is driven by the current Places entry will be replaced by it merging, or creating for you, with your matching Google+ (Local) Business page set up in your Google+ Profile.

http://www.googleplacesblueprint.com/

For complicated issues such as, Suspended or ‘Quiet Purgatory’ accounts, or entries stuck in Pending Review, I offer private support to guide you and expedite a recovery of your search listing.

https://sites.google.com/site/b9412e3447f2f921/home

A new service is provided by Yext PowerListings to update Web Directories with matching data to your Google Places Entry.

Yexts second product is their Power Listings which from one dashboard allow you to update over 30 web directories with consistent data. Where this data matches your Google Maps blended search result Google Plus Local page it will add a citation to the ranking algorithms determination of the Places Listing at search time.

You can buy the Yext PowerListings here:

http://www.yext.com/pl/googleplaces-listing/index.html?ref=203339

The service is provided for one year and in addition to keeping your data consistent with Google Places it allows you to quickly add offers.

If you buy the Yext Power Listings here I add an hours free Google Places, Google+ Local, Consultancy.

Cheers. Andrew Huskinson. B.Sc.(Physics) C.Eng. MBCS CITP

0779 011 2897 (UK)

SQLPerformanceConsultant@gmail.com

AKA SQLPerformance on the Help Forum

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Google

Jun 22 2012 Published by admin under Google Maps - Google+ Local, Google Places, Google Plus Local, Google+ Business, Google+ Local

Google has many products but the one I do Expert Professional Help and Support for is Google Places for Business.

Here you can set up a description of your entity at a location which can be a public, charity or business location.

Google have monetised the searches via Adwords Express and Adwords so there can be problems where multiple business uses of a location clash with the initial Local product which became Maps. The Maps are a layer over Google Earth which adds mapping information. Each Google Places entry has a pointer in Maps positioning it on Google Earth and linking to Street Views of your location.

To confuse matters Google Places is being served a Google+ Local pages at the moment. This is a first step to merging your entry with a Google+ Profile new local Google+ Business page.

You can either set up a Google Profile in your Places email account and then add the local Business page or wait for Google to set these up for you.

By making the move to Google+ Business pages they are encouraging you to use the social Circles on which Google+ is based.

Cheers. Andrew Huskinson. B.Sc. C.Eng MBCS CITP

0779 011 2897 (UK)

SQLPerformanceConsultant@gmail.com

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Google Places powers Online Business

Jun 20 2012 Published by admin under Google Places, Google Plus Local, Google+ Business, Google+ Local

Over 60% of searches use Google Places to power your online business.

We are about to move to a new world where Google+ Business is the power behind your new social world.

Circles are the new way to organise your connections in your online world. You can choose who to share content with. Customers, suppliers, prospects, peer group and so on.

Dentists, Lawyers and Doctors seem to be the pointed end of Googles new Plus+ world. They alone will have personal Business+ pages which will never die throughout their career.

One issue I do not see addressed yet is how does a professionals Business+ page get transferred from one office to another. Will the Circles copy across as well. Will the office have some ownership rights of relationships made during the membership of a professional.

What is left behind of the professionals Business+ page, marked as ‘Closed’ or will there be start and end date stamps?

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Google Places now Google Plus (Google+) Local

Jun 11 2012 Published by admin under Google Places, Google Places Account Suspended, Google Places entry not showing in search, Google Places Quiet Purgatory, Google Plus Local, Google+ Business, Google+ Local

Last week Google Places blended Maps search result pages changed to Google Plus (Google+) Local pages when selecting to see the Google Reviews.

This is a foretaste of the merging of Google Places into Google+ Local Business pages.

If you have no Google+ Business page set up as local in your Google+ Mail account then Google are going to create one for you within a forecast 6 weeks. You will then be propelled into the world of a business Profile where you set up a much richer description of your business.

Here you have the Circles option to start linking your blended Maps search result to Pluses by those associates in your Circles.

One issue I have is what happens when the new Google+ Local Business account is Suspended, put into ‘Quiet Purgatory’ or out of the blue ‘location not supported’. Will all the social side of Circles be lost as well as at the moment Places accounts in the first two stati are ‘Dead’.

At the moment I am trying three Google+ profiles:

My first personal profile where I am dipping my toes into the social Circles:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/116819799750868340452/posts

One I have set up linked to my UK website where I list my products and services. Boring but they have to be somewhere visible:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/114750085883423388724/

And a page for my international blog

https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/102321644823773088880/

Which I hope Google will attach my professional Places page to as it has that website name

https://plus.google.com/111788822076211618630/about?gl=GB&hl=en-GB

A defensive strategy but one where you can target more appropriate Circles for each view of your web presence.

Cheers. Andrew.