Comments on: Workarounds for Google Places Verification

By: michael

michael — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:10:57 +0000

Using the second line for address hasnt worked for me?

By: Nyagoslav

Nyagoslav — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:40:20 +0000

In reply to Len.

Yep, MapMaker is now available in Canada, and will soon be available in Australia and New Zealand, too. However, it was not at the time this article was written, which is more than 9 months ago 🙂

By: Len

Len — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:29:55 +0000

.. in fact Google Mapmaker is available in Canada and is very effective in correct map errors. My recommendation is to correct you map error, and then get a group of Google account holders to review & verify it. Once that’s done and it’s approved the Mapmaker Map will be corrected, but that does not guarantee that Google Maps will adopt the change. I only have one experience, and in my case Google Maps was changed successfully.

By: Ron Kilbreath

Ron Kilbreath — Fri, 11 May 2012 15:53:19 +0000

These work-a-rounds are exactly the info I’ve been looking for…I live in Canada but want to do Places in the US. I’m considering using an elite proxy with a US ip in or close to my chosen city(cities).
What’s your opinion on this?

By: Matt @ Compensation Lawyers

Matt @ Compensation Lawyers — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 20:22:36 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. I know that with several clients I have had to set up Google places for them. Since Google has taken away the phone verification opt-in things have become more than a little pain in the butt.

This definitely help.

Thanks again

By: Nyagoslav

Nyagoslav — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 14:53:42 +0000

In reply to Julian.

Julian, here is a rule from the Google Places Quality Guidelines:

“Do not create listings at locations where the business does not physically exist. P.O. Boxes are not considered accurate physical locations. Listings submitted with P.O. Box addresses will be removed.”

I’d suggest you warn your client about that.

By: Julian

Julian — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 06:50:53 +0000

Thanks for the PO box work around. I have had a night mare trying to get a client who uses a virtual office verified. Hoping I can just get it to work with the same method.

By: Nyagoslav

Nyagoslav — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:14:12 +0000

In reply to Susan Walsh.

Hi Susan,

In this case I’d suggest that you get use of point 3 in the article 🙂

By: Nyagoslav

Nyagoslav — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:13:11 +0000

In reply to Jonathan.

Perfectly true! There are two ways to do that actually:

1) First create the listing and start waiting for the postcard. In the meantime create citations (this way hides a little risk of duplicates popping up).

2) First create a lot of citations, wait for Google to create a listing for you and then claim it by phone.

By: Nyagoslav

Nyagoslav — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:09:09 +0000

In reply to Lynn H.

It’s amazing, isn’t it! I believe I will have to make a note here that for some time now Map Maker is available in Canada too, so the opportunities expand 🙂