Comments on: Your Google Local Business Listing – Look What Happens If You Don’t Claim It!

By: Google Local Business Listing Guide | Walt Goshert

Google Local Business Listing Guide | Walt Goshert — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:16:34 +0000

[...] you don’t claim your Local Business Listing, Google will attempt to pull your Local business information from a 3rd party site. The information usually is incomplete or inaccurate. Since your Google Local Business Listing has [...]

By: Gene

Gene — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:02:19 +0000

Hi…I’m having the same problem. I have a former real estate agent that claimed the listing in GLBC when he was here in 2007, which we knew nothing about. Now, when you do a search for “Highland Lakes Real Estate Agent” his URL pops up instead of http://www.highlandlakes-realtors.com. I’ve claimed the business and changed the URL but it still point to the former employees website. This has GOT to be fixed. I don’t see why it is taking so long.

By: MICR Toner World

MICR Toner World — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:25:08 +0000

interesting find.. gonna look into that

By: Chris Chong

Chris Chong — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:07:41 +0000

YIKES!!! That is crappy, but yes, I think you can report that kind of thing.

By: Google Provides Local Business Center User Guide | The Expand2Web Blog

Google Provides Local Business Center User Guide | The Expand2Web Blog — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:49:15 +0000

[...] If you are a small business owner, it is super important to claim your listing. See Look What Happens if you Don’t Claim Your Google Local Listing! for an example of what can happen if you [...]

By: Listorbit

Listorbit — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:16:15 +0000

I think we can claim against those kind of spammy listings.

By: richard

richard — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:19:00 +0000

I have read your comments and I have another senario I own a directory where I have a lot of other business that pay me a fee to list their services on my website.
each business has their own profile page with a unique URL. it( for example http://www.mywebsite.com.au/toms_moving)

The business that are also on my website some have their own URL website that are on the local area search (for example: http://www.tommoving.com.au. The question I am trying to find out is if I also list the business name and place my (url http://www.mywebsite.com.au/toms_moving ) with their own website (www.tommoving.com.au) would this be allowed by google being the same name , and a directory website listing my customer profile page

By: Divakar

Divakar — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:41:14 +0000

I am agree with the writer he as given useful information.

By: Personal trainer

Personal trainer — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:27:21 +0000

Pretty interesting information, looks like google still has some stuff to iron out.

By: John Granacki

John Granacki — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:31:06 +0000

I often wonder where Google finds some its more obscure business information, particularly of newer businesses which haven’t even had telephones installed, much less gotten themselves listed in directories, but it is clear that Google is aggressively building its local business database and something is feeding it the data. I wonder if SanJose.com has, or has once had, a comprehensive directory of businesses in their neighborhood, including some for which data could not be found anywhere else–or at least not at the time Google ultimately decided that SanJose.com’s information was good enough? Perhaps they struck a deal with Boulevards, or more likely they are adopting a policy of linking to uncollaborated source in order to minimize potential for ip infringement liability.