Google Places for Business is seeing the wrong Google+ account

[Rocket.Fuel]

I am working with a family law firm, and they have their Google Places verified. After we added the individual lawyers to have their own Google Places it has confused the law firm with one of the attorneys.

So when you see the law firm in Google, and it says, "Google+ Page" under the link it takes you to one of the attorney's for the law firm instead of the location itself.

I have tried deleting the attorney so hopefully Google will see the right location again, but I'm still waiting.

Do you all have any suggestions? Tips? Tricks?

Thanks!

[MatthewBarby]

The attorney's should have Google Places accounts, they should have Google+ accounts (slightly different). You've done the right thing - delete the Places page for the attorney and then over a period of time Google will update the SERP listing.

Matt

[MiriamEllis]

Hi Reubenb,

From your description, it sounds like you are dealing with an accidental merge of the business listings. This is a very common occurrence in the multi-practioner scenario (lawyers, doctors, etc.). As you've already deleted the listing, I can't really offer advice on this, but I would recommend that you visit the Google And Your Business Forum and read up on the subject of 'merged listings'. There are 2 forms of merging, however, and you'll see threads about both types. One is the type of merging I am guessing happened to your listings in which the details of two listings are similar and Google accidentally combines them. The other is the intentional merge of a local and social page to achieve a fully merged listing - this does not concern you, so you can ignore threads about this. Here's the link to the forum:

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

I would also recommend that you look through threads in the Duplicate/Merges section of the Local Search Forum here:

http://localsearchforum.catalystemarketing.com/google-duplicates-merges/

That should bring you up-to-date on this topic.