Recent content by MattCheah

Linda & Mike - from what I've been reading you guys have been saying that if you want to merge manually, you'll need a personal g+ profile. However this isn't consistent with what I'm seeing. Is this just a recommended practice? or are we saying that you HAVE to have a personal g+ profile? We...

Interesting. I think when I had seen this in the past, I assumed that you needed to create a G+ profile in order to add the social functions to the place page. Do we have any idea when this stopped being necessary?

Tyson - I'm a little confused by what you're saying. In my experience, all +Business and Places pages have the option to have reviews left on them. The only time I can think of when you cannot leave reviews on a page would be when a +Business page is first created and it has not yet been...

Yep - I can't imagine how else it would have happened.

I haven't received any emails from Google to that account unfortunately. I had assumed that this is where they were headed because I think people referred to the 'manual merge' as a temporary solution that businesses could perform ahead of time, but that eventually Places, +Local, +Business...

We take detailed notes for each of our clients and we never noted that we merged the page - we also update the listing for our clients using our own Google account for each client, so there's no way that the client could have done it on their own. I can only assume that Google did it. Have you...

Is it finally happening? I logged into a client's new dashboard account today and was greeted with this: I have never merged this listing with a G+ Business page, and this email address doesn't even have a Google+ profile associated with it, yet it is still able to manage the business as...

If you guys have tried using the troubleshooter recently, you may have noticed that the link we usually use for the troubleshooter takes us to a generic "support" page , found here: https://support.google.com/places/ After a little bit of poking around though, we found that the same...

Sincerest apologies if anyone has posted this question before - I assume it must be fairly common but I was unable to find an answer. Is it possible to create a +Business page without using a personal account to create it? The situation is this: My company would like to start providing...

Hey Joshua, I've experienced a similar problem with at least 50-100 of my clients. Could you do something for me? I know you're not allowed to disclose your clients' information, but go to maps, do a search for your client, and zoom all the way into where their business is. If they are a SAB...

So Linda, When this puts me out of a job, can I come work for you?

I just selected "Other." It seemed the most appropriate.

This was happening to one of my SAB clients and we just let Google know what was happening through the "Report a Problem" button on our listing. The address was hidden 6 days later. Not sure if this would happen across the board but it worked for me in this case. I'm still testing a few more...

So what is everyone's process when using Geosetter and/or Picasa/Flickr/Panoramio? Do you believe that adding meta information including lat/long and keywords etc. to images BEFORE adding them to GPLACES via the dashboard has any effect on placement? Otherwise should we just treat...

Thanks Colan and Flash, So would you guys say that that the only thing I can do for now is to sit tight and wait for Google to fix this "Old Listing acting like a new listing" problem that Linda pointed out? One of the things that confuses me is why some of my categories would show up...