Multiple businesses, one location

[autoczar]

We are a dealership group, we have 2 locations that have multiple brands/multiple business names. IE Chrysler store along with smart... and Infiniti along with Mitsubishi.

On Google Places, we can only claim one location per business (based on their guidelines), yet these brands are different.

Any suggestions on overcoming this obstacle?

[STPseo]

First I just want to say that the "obstacle" you want to overcome is a Google guideline and they run the show.

You could just mention all the brands you carry on the one Google place page. Maybe something like "Car Dealership - Chrysler, Smart, Infiniti, and Mitsubishi.... then  talk about all the brands in the description as well. When I do a search for "Ford" I get "Spradley Toyota" as my first local places result. I think this is your best bet.

If you insist on having a page for each brand, maybe you could just add a suite number to the address giving each brand it's own suite, therefor giving each brand an address. Not recommended. It'll be interesting to see what the other SEOmozers say about it.

[malachiii]

Auto dealership SEO is a tricky thing.  Stephen is right on the suite # issue.. that may fix it temporarily.  Do you have two different brands, with two different employees etc, or is it one employee that can sell different brands?