Should I delete Google Places and start over?

[PMC-312087]

My Google Places page is stagnant. It never changes its rank, doesn't find corresponding reviews on directory sites, disappears altogether after a few days for certain keywords and ranks poorly overall. We have had a horrible time getting our web presence to be uniform...name, address, phone, etc.

Our business was previously a different name so all those listings were still active, we have had different doctors over the years...those were associated with the business name in different listings, we used a referral service that sponsored listings using a diffferent phone number, change web url in the past year so some sites indicated the wrong address. HUGE HEADACHE

Are there any positives/negatives to deleting the Places page and starting over?

Here is the page:

http://maps.google.com/maps/place?hl=en&georestrict=input_srcid%3Ab1706925095a8afa

Thank you for your help!

[zharriet]

The information on your Google Places page in the link you gave looks accurate compared the the website it refers to. I would keep it.

What I would do is look at the pages with the wrong information and start trying to fix those by updating the information. You may have to let those other directories with reviews for the old name know about the name and staff changes.

One thing I did on their Google Places page for a restaurant website with a new name was to show it as "NewNameRestaurant formerly OldNameRestaurant" That seemed to help with some of the name confusion.

It can take a while for Google Places to make the changes. hth

[stefanok]

I totally agree hee with you. Keep it and start working on the pages with the wrong information.