Google Maps: Conflated Records

Rob Nicholson of VisitBritain.org has shared an unusual problem with Google Maps: Google has combined two listings (despite me registering our business as the correct details) thus giving a “kind of competitor” the picture as a screenshot of their product and the email and url as theirs! and there doesnt seem a way to fix …

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Google Maps Offers Refine by User Rating & Neighborhood Option

There has been much discussion in the local community about the impact of reviews and review star rating on local rankings. In research done last year, it seemed that the quantity of reviews had significantly more impact on ranking than the quality of reviews.Recently however Google Maps has added a new option in Maps Text …

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