How long do Facebook and Google pages have to be published before Moz can verify them?

[monicastuckey]

Hi there.  I've checked the forums and have seen similar questions, but couldn't find an answer in them.  I have a listing that I imported from my Google My Business account, but it comes up as unverified for both Facebook and Google.  Both pages exist, but have only been published for about 3 weeks.  Both sites contain the accurate business information and are the appropriate types of pages, so the best I can determine from what I've read in the other posts is that "newly" published Facebook and Google pages may not be able to be verified by Moz Local.

So the question is, what is considered "newly published"?

The Facebook business page is:  https://www.facebook.com/JTBentonConsulting/

The Google+ page is:  https://plus.google.com/b/114469171569907148968/+JTBentonConsultingAdamstown?pageId=114469171569907148968&hl=en

The name registered for Google My Business is:  J T Benton Consulting - Mobile Notary Public

Any ideas?

[LisaHunt]

Hi there,

Lisa from the Moz help team here!

Sorry for the confusion about this! There's no set amount of time that it takes for us to find your new listings. We're generally waiting for the address to be confirmed by Google/Facebook and for them to add the listing to their API.

In some cases, though, there are other elements that prevent us from finding these sources. With your Facebook and Google Maps listings, you do seem to have hidden the address. This means that it is not shown to us so that we can find the listing and match it to Moz Local.

We use your Facebook and Google Maps listings to verify the address, which means it does need to be visible.