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• Have a Google+ Page and a Google Local Page merged for the brand?

Do you know if there is a way to have one Google+ Page (company headquarters) merged with several Google Local  (branches)? I'm trying to not have to manage several different social Google+ profiles for every location--just a primary.

I am working with a client who has numerous locations. Should I be making numerous Google+ pages merged with Google Local for each location? Or, is it better to make one Google+ page for corporate and have Google Local for the rest of the locations?

Is there a way to have one corporate Google+ page that has the various Google Local pages linked to corporate?

Thanks for the help guys!

Well thanks for clarifying

Haha, will do.

Thanks for the information tho

Haha, love it

Hey Vadim,

Thanks for your response.  Yeah, that is what we are doing currently, I was just seeking a means to make it even easier on visitors.  As well as with that functionality, I feel like we'd be able to do some pretty cool call to actions.

Thanks again!

Hey Robert,

Thanks for the response, I may have not verbalized exactly what I'd like to accomplish.  I'm not looking to embed existing Google+ reviews to my website.  I'd like to embed something from Google that is a text box where people can submit a review from our website, instead of having them click on an icon to go to another page.

Thanks for any advice

Haha, which is what I was thinking thanks for your response Vadim.

Sweet, thanks for the reply!

Sweet, thanks for the reply!

Greetings Mozzers,

I'm wondering if there is a way to get a Google+ embed on a website for visitors to easily provide Google+ reviews without having to leave your site?

Hard? Easy? Doable? Good Idea?

Any direction or education on this matter would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Greetings Mozzers,

I'm working on some Google+ profiles currently and have one interesting case where I'd like some advice.  The name of one of my clients' web addresses, company name, and Google+/Google Local verified local business names all reflect the same thing.

[Name] Surgical Associates

However, on Google+ it looks like it has a limited number of characters so it reads:

[Name] Surgical Ass...

How important is it to keep the name identical to everything else on the web? Could I get away with just changing the name on Google+ to [Name] Surgical

I appreciate in advice on this matter and what would occur if I changed it here. Thanks.

Hey Keri,

Thanks for the response, the issue looked to be on Google's end, as after getting a hold of someone on the phone they expressed everything had been done correctly, however it was being bogged down on their end.

I was told that they are working on fine tuning their process to make sure it goes quicker for the future.

Greetings Mozzers,

I'm having a tough time merging my Google+ page with my Google Local page and wanted to see if anyone could give me some additional information/advice for progressing on this.

Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/112342618763108384372/about?hl=en  Google Local: https://plus.google.com/104995472630988321277/about?gl=us&hl=en

Both of them have been verified and "managed" via postcards, however the Local one never seems to get "managed".  I look forward to hearing back on any guidance/advice.

Much appreciated,
Ryan

Thanks Marisa,

Looks like it shows up there.  I appreciate the tip on that tool.

Greetings Mozzers,

I recently added a significant amount of information within a single page utilizing toggles to hide the content from a user and for them to see it they must click to reveal.  Since technically the code is reading "display:none" to start, would that be considered "Black Hat" or "Not There" to crawlers?  It isn't displayed in any sort of spammy way.  It is more for the UX of the visitor that toggles were utilized.

Thoughts and advice is greatly appreciated!

Greetings Mozzers,

To my knowledge I'm doing everything that is "required" to start showing up on the map results when searching something local, however, we never seem to be on map results (A, B, C, D...etc).

We have a Google+ page, submitted to Google Places (received PIN and entered it), optimized address to identical and in high authority map listing directories (GetListed.org), increased citations throughout the web, optimized keywords for categories on Google Places, schema.org HTML markup for address, meta address tags, consistent reviews being written by unique visitors to review sites (Yelp, Google+, etc).

Am I missing a major component? Any advice would be great as I feel like I'm hitting many notes that should translate into a map result.  Even for keywords that aren't incredibly difficult where we are ranking #1 above map results every time.

Thanks and hope all have a great weekend!

Both would have similar url structures like this ->

clothing.com/belts/new-york-belts

clothing.com/belts/miami-belts

For this example, they are equal amount of external and internal links. Freshly made pages, 2 months old.  One was indexed and ranking well, the other, indexed and not ranking in the top 20 pages?

Greetings Mozzers,

I'm working on a web based companies SEO where their services can be optimized for each area.  We have different pages for different keywords with a region attached to the keyword string we are going after.  For example, if the keyword is "Belts" and the regions you want to go after is New York and Miami. You are located in Miami so you have a page for "Miami Belts" and you rank well for it, but you want to start selling them online and want to rank for New York, so we have a "New York Belts" optimized web page that is completely unique content, however it isn't ranking at all.

Any thoughts? I know the address would be helping the the Miami page, but besides that why would the New York optimized page not rank? Lets say the two regions are equally competitive.

Any clarification and information is greatly appreciated.