The procedure of creating a multiple language listing is to go to the right angle and change the language, right (for example from english to spanish)? But this changes just the language in my google places account. My listings stays in english, and I don’t see where I have to type the keywords and description in spanish. My questions is do I have to edit my listing after I change the language, and fill in all the information in spanish or I should be looking for new fields.

If is the first think, I don’t see any sense. Because this means that I don’t need to change the language in LBC I can just fill in my business information in spanish.

One more thing… Is this just replacing my existing business listing in english with spanish…or is it creating a new listing is spanish and keeping the one on english.

Also If I have to create it in a diffrent LBC account – does this mean one more verification?

Thank you so much

Thank you so much for quick response. Yes, you’re right, why take the chance that they would merge |o|

I do not have specific experience with Thai but you would be best off submitting the listing from a separate LBC account so that Google’s algo perceives the two listings as two distinct location id numbers. Why take the chance that they would merge?

Thank you for sharing. I’ve searched for this particular answer for quite some time but another comments in this post have just led me to another questions. I’m to create listings in Thai and English. These two will point to the same domain name that has Thai as a major language but also provides English translation pages.

http://www.mysite.com
http://www.mysite.com/en

The questions are;

- Should I submit http://www.mysite.com/en to English GG listing?
- Unlike Spanish and English languages that have mostly the same characters – that’s why Matha’s listings had been merged – Thai does not. Do I need two LBC accounts for creating listings in Thai and English so they won’t be merged (would they be at all)?

Thank you for your help.

To avoid the merging problem, google recommends that the listings be in separate LBC accounts.

Just after my last comment, this morning we discovered that Google had conflated our english and spanish listings. While we’re still getting good search results, all of the map links point to the spanish listing (which links to the spanish version of our Web site). This is, obviously, not ideal. As a temporary measure, we’re pointing both listings to our English Web site. But, still, the listing information is always in spanish, regardless of what search terms are used.

I’m concerned that Google is flagging the two listings as “duplicate” and that’s why this is happening. Frustrating.

In the last week, I finally broke into the Spanish search but only by adding a spanish category to the English listing — the Spanish listing is still not getting hit at all. Interestingly, once I added the Spanish category, the Spanish search results started within 24 hours on the English listing. I wasn’t expecting such quick results.

This happened after the English listing also seemed to finally break into some critical English searches that I’d be tuning it for. It was almost like once I had broken into that space, my listing was somehow optimized to the degree that other changes were noticed more quickly. Does that make sense? (Perhaps it was just a coincidence).

So we’re seeing the Spanish search results but apparently NOT b/c of the spanish listing.

What’s also weird is that in terms of citation nothing major changed (Even though I’d spent several weeks working on various highly-rated IYP and attorney directories). Before the results got better we had 44 citations; after we had 46. I can’t see any substantive difference. It’s a bit frustrating to see the results but not be really sure what you did to get them!

I’m intrigued by the idea of converting some of the third-tier listings to spanish. . .might be a technique for getting some even better results on the spanish searches — and finally get some citations on that spanish listing.

In any case, thanks again for this post and your site generally. It’s a wealth of information!