{"id":13872,"date":"2012-11-28T16:17:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T20:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=13872"},"modified":"2012-11-28T16:17:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T20:17:30","slug":"having-issues-with-your-glocal-social-merge-my-advice-dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/having-issues-with-your-glocal-social-merge-my-advice-dont\/","title":{"rendered":"Having Issues with Your G+Local Social Merge? My Advice: Don&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Googler Jade has <a href=\"http:\/\/productforums.google.com\/forum\/#!category-topic\/business\/tK6133zBZ1Y\">posted<\/a> a tip at the Google for Business forums with resources for solving the issues that might crop up if you are doing a merge (hat tip to Linda Buquet for <a href=\"http:\/\/localsearchforum.catalystemarketing.com\/google-places-important-updates\/1318-google-local-merge-verify-g-page-problems.html\">highlighting<\/a> this). My recommendation: DO NOT MERGE YET. Wait for Google to fully flesh our their product line and feature sets so you can make an informed decision.<\/p>\n<p>Here is Jade&#8217;s post:<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Issues with merging the local business\/place page in Google+ and the local Google+ page (with reviews)?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Wondering whether you should attempt the merge\/verification? Read\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/productforums.google.com\/forum\/#!category-topic\/business\/nqzouJ3KkU8\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a>\u00a0first. More information and FAQ on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/productforums.google.com\/forum\/#!category-topic\/business\/cLdShAg9xYs\" target=\"_blank\">original announcement post<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<ul style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Help! My social local Google+ page (that I made in the local business\/place category) has been verified but doesn&#8217;t seem to have merged with the correct reviews.\n<ul style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Submit these pages to be merged as duplicates\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/support.google.com\/places\/bin\/static.py?hl=en&amp;ts=1386120&amp;page=ts.cs\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, selecting, &#8220;There is a duplicate listing that I would like to have removed.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The social local Google+ page I made is stuck in verification and still says &#8220;In progress&#8221; after over a week.\n<ul style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A handful of pages appear seem to be stuck in verification, and we&#8217;re working on getting them out. Sit tight!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The PIN I received isn&#8217;t working.\n<ul style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Make sure your business location is findable on Google Maps. Go into\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/maps.google.com<\/a>\u00a0and type in the exact text you have as your address on the page. Make sure Maps can find your location without needing to go through any<em>\u00a0<\/em>&#8220;Did you mean&#8230;?&#8221; links.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Make sure no information on the page is set to &#8220;Private.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Don&#8217;t change any info on your page in between requesting the PIN and entering the PIN.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Request a new PIN if possible.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">If you can&#8217;t request a new PIN, contact support via the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/support.google.com\/business\/bin\/static.py?hl=en&amp;page=ts.cs&amp;ts=2535756&amp;from=2535756&amp;rd=1\" target=\"_blank\">Google+ verification troubleshooter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Googler Jade has posted a tip at the Google for Business forums with resources for solving the issues that might crop up if you are doing a merge (hat tip to Linda Buquet for highlighting this). My recommendation: DO NOT MERGE YET. Wait for Google to fully flesh our their product line and feature sets &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google-plus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13873,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13872\/revisions\/13873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}