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Hi All,
There have been many different discussions surrounding practitioner listings and how to overcome the problems between them and the main business page. I wanted to get some insight on what other people are seeing lately when it comes to business brand name searches and the listings that are populating.
I've practiced all of Linda's minimizing techniques and have seen it work really well, but over the last few weeks, I've had many practitioner listings populate for business brand name searches and can't figure out why??!?! It's not like these practices/firms went through re-branding or NAP change, so it seems pretty strange to me.
I may be way off here, but could it make sense that Google may be testing a new part of the algo for businesses with many practitioners (Attorneys, Dentist, Surgeons, etc), by showing all those (practitioners) working within the office rather the main business listing itself? Seems like a long shot, but I wouldn't put it passed Google, so I wanted to share my thoughts here to see if anyone else may be experiencing the same thing?
I've contacted support numerous times about this and to make sure all is okay in the back-end of the main listing (which it has been), but the only consistent answer I get is something like, "there must be a bug in the algo" or "continue to optimize and be active on your business listing, and in time, Google will recognize the authority on the main business page." Which isn't much help, when that's what I've been doing for years.
Here is an example of one that started showing like this last week.
Searched Term: Grossman Plastic Surgery Denver CO -- 2015-05-04_1102 - ChristaMo's library
Dr. Grossman -- https://plus.google.com/117503120304170080043/about
Dr. Capraro -- https://plus.google.com/104647882880660347728/about
Grossman Plastic Surgery -- https://plus.google.com/+GrossmanPlasticSurgeryDenver/about
I've had practitioner listings set up, verified and minimized for this client for over a year. When I search for the main business name with or without the geomodifier the same results show -- see the screenshot above. You can see that only the practitioner listings are showing. Even when i choose to see the map results -- the main business listing isn't even an option. Why Google, whyyyy?
Recently, I've also experience this with Google generated practitioner listings, where I have claimed, verified and optimized those, again using Linda's minimizing techniques, but am still having the same issue. So, it seems to be affecting both, aged and newly created/generated listings.
I know this has been an on-going issue, but I'm just curious to see what everyone else has been experiencing lately. Any feedback is welcome!
There have been many different discussions surrounding practitioner listings and how to overcome the problems between them and the main business page. I wanted to get some insight on what other people are seeing lately when it comes to business brand name searches and the listings that are populating.
I've practiced all of Linda's minimizing techniques and have seen it work really well, but over the last few weeks, I've had many practitioner listings populate for business brand name searches and can't figure out why??!?! It's not like these practices/firms went through re-branding or NAP change, so it seems pretty strange to me.
I may be way off here, but could it make sense that Google may be testing a new part of the algo for businesses with many practitioners (Attorneys, Dentist, Surgeons, etc), by showing all those (practitioners) working within the office rather the main business listing itself? Seems like a long shot, but I wouldn't put it passed Google, so I wanted to share my thoughts here to see if anyone else may be experiencing the same thing?
I've contacted support numerous times about this and to make sure all is okay in the back-end of the main listing (which it has been), but the only consistent answer I get is something like, "there must be a bug in the algo" or "continue to optimize and be active on your business listing, and in time, Google will recognize the authority on the main business page." Which isn't much help, when that's what I've been doing for years.
Here is an example of one that started showing like this last week.
Searched Term: Grossman Plastic Surgery Denver CO -- 2015-05-04_1102 - ChristaMo's library
Dr. Grossman -- https://plus.google.com/117503120304170080043/about
Dr. Capraro -- https://plus.google.com/104647882880660347728/about
Grossman Plastic Surgery -- https://plus.google.com/+GrossmanPlasticSurgeryDenver/about
I've had practitioner listings set up, verified and minimized for this client for over a year. When I search for the main business name with or without the geomodifier the same results show -- see the screenshot above. You can see that only the practitioner listings are showing. Even when i choose to see the map results -- the main business listing isn't even an option. Why Google, whyyyy?
Recently, I've also experience this with Google generated practitioner listings, where I have claimed, verified and optimized those, again using Linda's minimizing techniques, but am still having the same issue. So, it seems to be affecting both, aged and newly created/generated listings.
I know this has been an on-going issue, but I'm just curious to see what everyone else has been experiencing lately. Any feedback is welcome!
