Hello Everyone,
I am new to the forum, a small business owner and excited to learn more about SEO. I recently had my wesbite audit performed by SOLAS web, Miriam Ellis. The audit was very thorough and since then Ive been focused on the recommendations she has provided. However, I havent been able to make much progress...
The first step was that my NAP is different on my website then what was on google+ page. So I then attempted to correct.
Here is what has happened thus far
Google had changed my address on an already verfied listing. First let me start out by saying is that I was/still getting promotional offers for advertising on google postcards that show my correct address. But for some reason they changed it to the county Route number instead on my +places page.
After multiple attempts.I had to 1) report a problem with the listing by reporting error. 2) had to change the listing in my dashboard and verify the address is correct via phone. 3) correct address on map maker to support the correct location.
Not sure which method worked, but I finally got it corrected back to the correct address after attempting all of the above. The listing finally changed after about two weeks. Great!! I thought.
Downside: Now I noticed my places position dropped from letter A to all the way to letter J. I took the steps to get a listing corrected in ways google had asked. Google changed an already pre-verified listing and now my places page is suffering. Why does google change already verified business info? and then penalized the business owner for attempting to correct it? How do I get back to the A position?
if you search for 08080 tree service. We use to come up letter A, always, now on the second page letter J. Stanch's Tree Service. www.stanchtree.com
During this process I realized I had two duplicate listings. I deleted the second listing during the process of trying to correct the address. At first I didn't realize I had two listings since their statistics were identical. I tried changing the address on both. They looked the same in my dashboard. The only difference was the email in which I signed in to dashboard to view them. I'm now thinking that reporting errors to both listings brought attention of the duplicate and in essence I nixed myself? It was not until my address change became in effect that I dropped in places ranking.
Fast forward to today. Google changed the address back again! After I waited two weeks for it to be corrected.
UPSIDE:I am now back up to the top letter A on google places DOWNSIDE: seem to have dropped in organic results. I dont know what to do.. why is google resisting this address change? Do I just accept it and change all of our citations to reflect this?
I am new to the forum, a small business owner and excited to learn more about SEO. I recently had my wesbite audit performed by SOLAS web, Miriam Ellis. The audit was very thorough and since then Ive been focused on the recommendations she has provided. However, I havent been able to make much progress...
The first step was that my NAP is different on my website then what was on google+ page. So I then attempted to correct.
Here is what has happened thus far
Google had changed my address on an already verfied listing. First let me start out by saying is that I was/still getting promotional offers for advertising on google postcards that show my correct address. But for some reason they changed it to the county Route number instead on my +places page.
After multiple attempts.I had to 1) report a problem with the listing by reporting error. 2) had to change the listing in my dashboard and verify the address is correct via phone. 3) correct address on map maker to support the correct location.
Not sure which method worked, but I finally got it corrected back to the correct address after attempting all of the above. The listing finally changed after about two weeks. Great!! I thought.
Downside: Now I noticed my places position dropped from letter A to all the way to letter J. I took the steps to get a listing corrected in ways google had asked. Google changed an already pre-verified listing and now my places page is suffering. Why does google change already verified business info? and then penalized the business owner for attempting to correct it? How do I get back to the A position?
if you search for 08080 tree service. We use to come up letter A, always, now on the second page letter J. Stanch's Tree Service. www.stanchtree.com
During this process I realized I had two duplicate listings. I deleted the second listing during the process of trying to correct the address. At first I didn't realize I had two listings since their statistics were identical. I tried changing the address on both. They looked the same in my dashboard. The only difference was the email in which I signed in to dashboard to view them. I'm now thinking that reporting errors to both listings brought attention of the duplicate and in essence I nixed myself? It was not until my address change became in effect that I dropped in places ranking.
Fast forward to today. Google changed the address back again! After I waited two weeks for it to be corrected.
UPSIDE:I am now back up to the top letter A on google places DOWNSIDE: seem to have dropped in organic results. I dont know what to do.. why is google resisting this address change? Do I just accept it and change all of our citations to reflect this?
