Generally i create a normal ad using the above keywords, fill everything from our timings, to payment that we accept, photos, our specialty and different industry we server.

The ads that i had created were doing really good so it has really harmed us now that we dont have any ads

What are your listings? Lets take a look

Every competition i see has multiple listings some that do not even are present in the location.

Has google flagged by listings is there any chance? can you help me with what do i do

Just because you can upload 10 doesn’t mean you should upload 10. The guidelines are pretty clear that one location gets one listing.

From the guidelines:
Create only one listing for each physical location of your business. Do not create more than one listing for each business location, either in a single account or multiple accounts. Service area businesses, for example, should not create a listing for every town they service. Likewise, law firms or doctors should not create multiple listings to cover all of their specialties.

If we can create only one listing per location, how come we can then upload a data file for more than 10 listings,

Is there a chance that my listings can come back i was no 1 and was getting great business

let me know

I have to read alot more to understand the changes.

I have consulted with small local businesses for several years.

Many have suffered from the impact of internet marketers.

The florist industry is a very prominent example. There are a myriad of internet marketers that are not legitimate florists. They have contracts with the wire services, i.e., teleflora and FTD, to process their orders through local florists.

These marketers have very pervasive SEO and appear in prominent search results all over the USA in every little town,etc. Their e-commerce sites take the customer orders and they inturn pass them over to the wire services.

The wire services send the orders out to a florist in the area where the internet marketer received the order from.

In other words, the internet marketers are scamming a 20 or better percent commission by just passing the order through the wire service. The local florist as a participant in the wire service has to give up appx. 30% of the sale to compensate the internet marketer and the wire service. This not only is a loss of income to local florists, but the local florist has no knowledge of the purchaser of the flowers.

The internet marketers build highly competent email campaigns using periodic, but not less than 12 emailings pre year to previous customers.
This is continuing to cause economic issues for brick and mortar florists.
The largest number of businesses for sale in America for the past few years has been local florists.

The Google maps and local business searches keep yielding up results on NON-local businesses ahead of local businesses. Google should prioritize local business listings accord to the search criteria used by the searcher. In other words.. If the searcher uses keywords flowers & Orlando the first search results should be from local florists in Orlando only

As it is, the search results return NEAREST results, which means even the local florists in the specified city or usurped by internet marketers and other florists near, but not in the specified city.

I realize most small businesses do serve greater areas than just where they are specifically located. Yet, the searcher didn’t ask that in the search. The search specified flowers & Orlando. Therefore, if the local business has a physical address within the specified city his listings should come before all listings that are not within the specified city.

This way local area businesses with brick and mortar stores do have preference. They should have preferential positions as they are local businesses physically located within the specified (searched) area.

As it is….the NEAREST results turn up a myriad of out of city results. The local businesses, even if there are only 3 of them turn up way back the search return results. They don’t have adequate SEO knowledge to pump themselves to the front of the listings, when they should precede all other local listings including NEAREST, if they have a physical address within the city specified in the search.

This criteria should also apply to zipcodes as well.

Local people are using the internet, not local yellow pages for the most part. This especially applies to larger metropolitan areas where there are adequate broadband providers and computer literate persons.

The basic criteria for small business searches with the Google Maps should be…

Local Business that provide the service searched and have a physical address within the specified location should receive preferential placement in local business with map locations. They should appear first in alphabetical order on search result pages.

NEAREST local businesses should follow them on search result pages. The internet marketers should not appear unless they have a physical address within the search area.

The internet marketers and directories should be allowed commercial advertisements, but they should NOT appear as LOCAL or NEAREST business within local type search result pages.

This is not an isolated problem for florists. It applies to other types of local businesses.

Search engine companies want people to use the internet, that is the future for the search engines. The search engines must accept constantly changing environments as they take on more areas of interest for searchers. Google and the other search engines have moved into establishing themselves as huge searchable directories, similar to a huge yellow pages. There are responsibilites that go with that enlarged role of service.

Note: The yellow page directories even today alphabetically list local businesses. This may not seem like a best way, but how do you “honestly” provide a criteria that would be more important to searchers at this very basic level.

Someone might suggest additional criteria for placement. Reviews.. we all know how they can be manipulated, time in business not good because a real loser can buy an established business.

Alphabetical order takes the search engine out of qualifying business and still provides the basic information required by the searcher.