Places for business vs. Google+ personal profile

[richardslaw]

I am still trying to figure out Places and Google+.  Could someone please help me understand how my Google+ profile (that it attached to and can be accessed through my gmail account) interacts with my Places page (which requires my gmail credentials to administer, but can only be accessed through the Places page itself)?  Do my posts on my personal profile enhance my Places listing?  Any help would be appreciated.

[Andy.Drinkwater]

Hi Jared,

Your posts on G+ will have no effect on your places listing - you are an administrator of that page and nothing more.

Do you have control of that page OK?

Andy

[richardslaw]

Yes, I have control.

[Andy.Drinkwater]

OK good - well aside from just ensuring everything is present on that page, there is little more you can do with it, but don't try too hard because Google used to penalise for that - I would be surprised if they still don't.

Andy

[MiriamEllis]

Hi Jared, I recommend you take a look at these two articles by local search godfather, Mike Blumenthal:

http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/08/03/step-by-step-guide-to-the-google-businesslocal-merge-verification-process/

http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/08/10/google-business-pages-to-merge-or-not-to-merge-that-is-the-question/

I think you'll find these really relevant!

[richardslaw]

Thanks.  I will take a look.