* Google Places - "More About This Place" Section
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How often does Google update the "more about this place" section on a Google Places page?
I have updated the company NAP on all the directories, added company information to multiple sites (using Google Discussions as a starting point), added backlinks, etc. Still, the "more about this place" section remains the same (over 2 months without updates).
That section still cites our old website which is petmedicalcenter.vetsuite.com, even though our new website http://www.petmedicalcenter.com has been live for 3 months.
Would it be better to wait for these updates or delete the page and completely start over?
Thanks for your help!!
Brant
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Brant
This might be your issue...
Do this site search in Google: site:www.petmedicalcenter.vetsuite.com
Google still has about 112 pages in its index from your old site, all with "Pet Medical Center of Las Vegas" in the title tag, and an address in the description. Maybe of these still pages from the old site are still in the cache. AND there are no 301 redirects at all pointing to your new site.
So there lies the issue I think. You may want to see if it is possible to 301 redirect all the old pages to their corresponding new pages. If this is not possible technically, you need to do a domain forward to the new domain.
-Dan
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That is a tough decision to make, but i would suggest that your best couse of action would be clicking the little "inform google about an error on this page" link on the places page and just waiting it out. A big part of what means anything in local optimization is the age of the places page, so you do not want to throw that away.
Also, from what i have read and heard from other SEO's the whole "more about this place" getting citations added to it is happening a LOT slower than it used to. We have over 100 citations out there for each of our locations and probably only 10-15 appearing on each of our places pages after over 1/2 a year of having them out there.
Patience is a virtue in this game. While you wait for those citations to happen why not focus on garneshing a handful of reviews on all the sites that google picks up reviews from. I have seen google suddenly recognize a citation after finding a review attached to it on qype.co.uk and i'm sure it happens with other sites as well like yelp.
Best of luck,
Storwell
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