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I have a friend who is a dietician and has the following issue with his business

• He works in 4 different locations across town- Each location is shared with other practitioners. - he uses the same phone number for each location (free 0800 UK number)- he has legacy google places profiles for some locations with some reviews he'd like to keep and other locations he'd like to delete.He'd like to be present on page 1 of google for terms like dietician in "name of location he works in"I am clearly concerned about his NAP profile since he only has 1 phone number for all locations.The address of each location can clash with other practitioners working there who have already registered a GMB profile using the same addresses although there might be the possibility of using something like "suite x" to differentiate his business in the address.Can anybody advice on how they would approach this one please.Thanks

Awesome

Thanks so much for your input miriam. Very useful

Thanks Miriam, very useful as always. I thought multiple locations needed their own set of NAP but I wanted to know if there was a more efficient way of doing it. This triggers a new question around maintaining all the listings and the socializing for each account. How does a company manage this for each location unless they have an army of people?

Hi there

I have been asked to help with a business which has multiple locations (5 to be precise). I haven't really worked with a business on that scale before so I am a little bit out of my depth.
I had a look at their business listing in the moz local business listing checker and their profile seems very messy. I can see several of their branches listed, some verified, some not verified. When I look at the listing for each branch in detail they are all incomplete but at different levels (ranges from 17% to 46%). Some have a Facebook page and some haven't, same for google my business etc...
My understanding when it comes to multiple locations is that, in an ideal world,  each branch should have its own google my business page, Facebook page, a Bing places for business page etc...
Can anyone confirm what the best approach is to deal with multilocations businesses and their business listing and/or point me to some online resource that could help me. 
Would I also need to create multiple accounts for listing their business in directories such as Yelp, Yell etc...

Thanks so much for all the help I can receive

OMG! thank you so much donna. Works a treat

That doesn't work really. I want to be able to specify the location very specifically. This doesn't work

Damn google! Thanks eric

Hi Everybody

Back in december 2015 I came across this article https://gofishdigital.com/google-results-change-location/  explaining how to change location for local search results using the google emulation tool by setting up new coordinates. This was also picked up by mikeblumenthals' blog as being one of the best way of doing this. I tried it at the time and it worked very well. I tried using it last week and again this week but my location no longer seems to update. I have tried it on fifferent computers located in different locations and still it doesn't work. Does anyone know if this feature is no longer available and if not what else they'd recommend to verify local search results.

Thanks

Hi

Can anyone recommend what they think the best tool is to track local rankings. I want to manage several small businesses' visibility and I am not sure which one is the best. I have been told that "Bright local" and "SEO PowerSuite" are the best in the business. Is that true? or is there something better out there

Thanks

I have tried out the SEO moz local tool as I wanted to test how accurate it is and potentially sale it to some of my clients.
I seem to be falling short of the 100% profile completion as the tool can't see I have a page set up for my  business in facebook at https://www.facebook.com/mybusiness.
I have even deleted the page in question and tried to recreate it from scratch following the link from the SEO moz local that that says my facebook profile is incomplete but it' still not working. Has anyone experienced the same issue or am i doing something wrong?

thanks dimitri

I have scoured the web in order to find a guide that would give me the ideal dimensions for images to populate google my business page... in vain.

Google itself is very vague about it as indicated below

• Format: JPG, PNG, TIFF, BMP
• Size: Between 10 KB and 5 MB
• Minimum resolution: 250px tall, 250px wide

Does anyone know of a guide with optimum recommendation for each photo (profile, Cover photo, business specific photos...)  or alternatively can recommend the exact size needed.

Thanks

Hi there

Can someone tell me if the description serves a purpose in the google my business profile since:
a) It is not displayed anywhere as far as i have seen (maps, 3 pack local results, knowledge graph, organic results)
b) It is no longer considered as a ranking factor since it was abused so much

Thanks

Thanks miriam. Very useful indeed. This clearly makes things tricky when one wants to optimize for a local business

Thanks guys. Makes sense. Very useful indeed

Hi Everyone.

This may be a silly question but I was reviewing the 2014 Local Search Ranking Factors article produce by MOZ:
https://moz.com/local-search-ranking-factors
I am unsure about the reference to "personalisation"  which seems to account for 8.4% of the overall weight. Everything else is pretty clear as there is a quick description and examples for each topic but not for personalisation. Does anyone know what it includes?