Comments on: An Updated Step By Step Guide for the SMB to the Google + Local Page Transition

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By: Tate

Tate — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:42:04 +0000

Thanks Mike!

By: Mike Blumenthal

Mike Blumenthal — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:36:49 +0000

@Tate The short answer: NO The medium answer: No, No, No! The full answer is available here.

By: Tate

Tate — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 21:27:19 +0000

Mike,

I have a company that we have over 90 locations for and they were all claimed under the old places format. Do you think we should go through the whole verifying process and send pins again for google+ or should we wait for google to sort everything else out? What would be better for us to optimize, go through our places account or reverify for google+? It’s a lot of annoying work if we have to reverify with a pin. Shouldn’t google have an automatic way to do this?

By: Mike Blumenthal

Mike Blumenthal — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:30:31 +0000

@Rustan
Either the images are from a community upload or from a dashboard that had the listing previously. It will take up to a month for the images from your new dashboard to show on the + Local page. You can report the images to Google and request that they be removed by clicking on and into the given photo and reporting it via the options link at the bottom of the screen.

By: Rustan Robertson

Rustan Robertson — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:29:03 +0000

Any new news on this? I manage several GooglePlaces listings, and when I click the “See your listing on Google” link from the dashboard (it doesn’t say “See your listing on Google Maps…?), it takes me to a Google+ Local page, but photos & details are different from the GooglePlaces page, and I can’t find a way to edit them. Clicking the “Is this your business” button just takes me back to the dashboard, and Google of course is NO HELP. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

By: Mike Blumenthal

Mike Blumenthal — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:11:13 +0000

@Christopher
Google apparently is still trying to figure that out. Stay tuned was the last message that I received with no good suggestion.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:03:01 +0000

Mike, great details and steps, all very helpful. Do you know what the best way to deal with the following issue would be? I manage nearly 1000 retail location Places pages seperated over 12 individual dashboards. None of those logins match the login that was used to create our Google+ Business page. Is there any way (easy or not) that this mess can be corrected so that all of our locations will eventually be married under the Google+ Business page? Thanks!

By: MarkDacillo

MarkDacillo — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 13:12:28 +0000

Thank you so much Mike for this update. I successfully merged my client’s Google+ local page into the full interface of Google+ Business Page. Your guide helped me a lot to go on the process. By the way i love reading your blog updates keep up the great work. You inspire me a lot

By: Mike Blumenthal

Mike Blumenthal — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 21:30:43 +0000

Simone
Add a step zero (0) to the above:
0- Find the G+ local Page for the business and click on the link “Manage this page” and claim the page into the Places Dashboard using the same email that you will use to set up your G+ personal account and business page.

Then proceed with the rest of the items on the list.