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How do I find associations between two businesses?
More that will help you show google there two companies Yes in order to break the correlation between the businesses it does not really matter that they're on the same IP. more on that at the bottom in case you're using a .com and trying to target a country that you have yet to tell Google Webmaster tools you wish to target. this only matters if you are outside of the country you are are targeting with a geo-targetable domain like .com, see https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/1347922 etc. you will then want to make sure you sign up for https://www.google.com/business/ this is free and allows you to add your business to Google plus one very important part of adding this site correctly or sites correctly to Google Webmaster tools is to make sure you have chosen www. or no-www in Google Webmaster tools the reason this matters is you cannot target any country without doing this first. See https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/44231?hl=en Then add Your businesses to https://www.google.com/business/faq.html you should place your IP address into the box in this URL this will tell you where your server's data center is http://www.neustar.biz/services/ip-intelligence ( always nice to see people using a VPS) one thing to understand about IP addresses is they do play a small role in Google's understanding of where you are but it is extremely small. If you are in the United States and have a .com address you will want to use Google Webmaster tools and target United States. Obviously you would want to do the same for whatever country or in. If you're in a country with an non-geo-targetable domain like .ca ( Canada) or .de( Germany) you automatically are targeting the countries with a geo-target domain. There is really no other way around doing that then once they're created use Moz local to create citations that will differentiate the two businesses even more. https://moz.com/local/overview one of the best I signed up with http://localu.org/ You will also want to add schema to your address along with a KML file and XML site map with your latitude and longitude this is a free tool that allows you to do this and even creates a schema generated map. http://www.geositemapgenerator.com/input If you use WordPress I recommend purchasing the Yoast local plug-in it will do this and add it to your site map flawlessly along with giving people directions to your business you can also incorporate tools like yoast local SEO in order to add https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/local-seo/ http://local.yoastdemo.com/widgets-demo/ another easy way to add schema for your address is to use Google's rich snippet creator which is only good for Google not other search engine but if that does not bother you here it is. https://www.google.com/webmasters/markup-helper/ in my opinion this is one of the greatest schema tools and it has a WordPress plug-in if needed. http://schema-creator.org/organization.php or you just want a fast address made correctly http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/address/ to better understand why you should use it http://www.webmechanix.com/advantages-of-html5-and-semantic-markup All the best, Tom
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