Local SEO Best Practice

[ocelot]

Hi

We currently have 6 showrooms in a geographical area (Scotland,UK) and each showroom covers a specific region within the country encompassing towns and cities.  So for example showroom A based in Edinburgh covers a customer area of Edinburgh, Fife, St Andrews while showroom B located in Glasgow covers Glasgow, Livingston etc  In google places I have drawn the geographical area on the map that each showroom covers making sure that they do not overlap

At present some of which are ranking well in local but one is stating that 'google does not support this location' and after following previous advice on the forum this is still the case.

Would I be better setting up another google account for this showroom and submit it again into Google Places or would it be better going into Google+ business pages? or are they the same thing?

Finally is it worth using the following in Google Places?

• KML File and Geo Sitemap generation (these files are needed for Google)
• Address output in Schema.org format

[ocelot]

any ideas?  Would I be better just setting up another Google Places listing under a new google account?

[MiriamEllis]

Hi Ocelot,

I'll do my best to offer some advice on your different questions here.

Are you seeing the old or new Places for Business dashboard?

In either case, if you are a brick and mortar business, why are you setting a service radius? That is meant to show where a service area business goes to its customers - not where customers come from to visit a brick and mortar business, so I'm a bit puzzled by the approach you are describing.

There have been numerous, repeat issues with the 'do not support' problem. Are you familiar with these? There are many issues that can trigger the 'do not support' message. I recommend that you search the Google And Your Business Help Forum for 'do not support' to see if you see an issue described there that matches what you are experiencing. There are numerous threads like this one: http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!searchin/business/do$20not$20support/business/KJ74GS0Ld5M/5EQNHrrddo8J

Regarding your questions about schema, kml files, etc., how would you use these within Google Places? You can certainly use Schema and KML on your website, but geositemaps ceased being supported by Google in early 2012 (see: http://blumenthals.com/blog/2012/03/28/google-still-supporting-kml-files-but-not-the-use-of-geo-sitemaps/)

Hope these notes help!

[Christy-Correll]

Hi Ocelet, Miriam provided you with some excellent advice. Did it answer your questions?