Is it authorized, encouraged, tolerated or banned by Google?

Our business represents totally different keywords via english and french

Imagine you have a hotel and you want to describe it in the LBC for more than one countries.. someone from spain searching for hotels in your city will get a spanish description and someone from italy will get an italian description.

One requirement to have this option could be, that google looks for your website content’s language first.

No, I am suggesting it as a technique to ferret out listings for more scrutiny and possibly as spam.

Above I said 3)There are certain times when there is a legitimate need for more than one listing at an address as in a multilingual situation.

Mike

What about the situation I had, where there were several offices within the same building and suite number?

Are you suggesting that only one business can have a Local listing if it is in the same suite? It is very common to lease just one space within a larger office in cities like LA for example?

Are you asking how they should or could catch this stuff? I am not a programmer and they have a few good ones on staff so I am not sure they need my 2 cents. But what the heck, what is blogging all about if not shots from the cheap seats.

Certainly a little more verification in the LBC on the front end would make sense. A human review if certain conditions were triggered.

In the cases I’ve looked at there have been a number of common factors that would allow someone to flag suspicious records manually ie lawyers with more than one listing at the same phone number, more than one listing at the same address….I don’t have very good tools to access the data but they must and I am sure that they have some database jockeys that are more than up to the task.

One thing that is of interest to me that I have found is that certain of their search commands like the site: command do not always return all eligible records.

Mike

Dave