Google Plus Business Page is not showing up
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Hello,
I had 2 google+ business pages. But the website under those pages were different. For example, www.abc.com on 1st one and then www.xyz.com on 2nd one. Both of them had the different business name and website but same address and phone number. Also, www.abc.com domain was set as redirecting to www.xyz.com.
My 1st business page was ranking good but I wanted to use 2nd one only so I called up google and asked them to remove the 1st one and then they closed it. Now, the problem is that I lost the 1st one and 2nd one is not ranking for any of the keyword (I have checked all the pages in the SERP and it doesn't show up anywhere until last page). I have fixed all the citations everywhere recently but no luck in getting ranking.
Can anyone suggest what steps can be done to rank 2nd one now? FYI, I am talking about local places ranking, the domain www.xyz.com is ranked well in organic ranking.
Any help is appreciated!
Brian
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Hi Brian,
This kind of thing can be really tough to diagnose in a forum. Your Google+ Local listing status should not, in my opinion, have any major effect on your organic rankings. I recommend that you look for other clues as to something else that might have changed, such as a shakeup in your industry's organic results, new issues reported in Google Search Console, a competitor who has recently done something big to jump ahead of you. You may need to hire a consultant and open up your analytics for them so that they can start narrowing down possible issues, but I would be surprised if the Google+ Local page turned out to be at the root of this change you've seen.
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Hi all,
Adding something new here.
After your valuable suggestions, I called google and requested them to merge both the listings instead of closing one and using another (it helped a lot in ranking as well) but one day I incidentally found that I have another listing with same www.xyz.com website URL and address but different business name (not sure how much mess i am supposed to clean).
Then I called google again and this time they said it is not possible to merge this. So I asked them to delete the listing. But I noticed that the day after I deleted that listing, there was drop in ORGANIC RANKING for many of the keywords. In addition to this, I added some new pages in the website as well during same time.
What do you think might have affected my website's organic ranking this time? Deleting listing or adding new pages or both?
Please help!
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You're welcome, Brian!
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Great information, Miriam. Thanks!
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Hey Brian,
Hate to say it, but it would likely have been better to edit your existing listing rather than closing it and creating a new one, and given that these businesses seem to have shared the address and phone number, I would recommend studying this piece by Joy Hawkins about permanently closed businesses:
If Google already suspected that the 2 businesses were actually 1, given the shared address and phone, the above is something you may need to consider.
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https://moz.com/community/q/google-maps-listings
Refer to this q/a, it's very similar in it's nature. I think you'd have to do all the same stuff.
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Hello Dmitrii, Thanks for replying! This is because of the reviews I have on 2nd one, I removed the first one!
Is there anything I can do to get the 2nd showing up?
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Hi.
Time and patience, my friend.
Of course, make sure that all settings and info is correct.
Why didn't you get rid of 2nd non-ranking local listing and just modify 1st (ranking) one?
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