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web design london — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:15:23 +0000

It is worth the wait and if you can get to the top of the ten pack listing it is really worth it. You need to add content though, get customers to write reviews, add photo’s, maps and check what other sites Google are referencing and make sure your listed on those.

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By: Aaron

Aaron — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 09:33:34 +0000

Wow, that’s news to me. In Australia, they must use a total different system when it comes to verifying a local listing.

In my city, you can create a listing in Google local business center and it can be found in the search results within 5 minutes of entering the verification pin. I specialize in local business seo and I would go insane if i had to wait months for it to show in the results.

It’s probably like this due to the fact that there hasn’t been a problem with site owners hijacking unclaimed listings that I know of. I would say, 50% of the local listings in my city are still unclaimed. Small business owners haven’t caught on and realized the power of SEO yet.

By: Patrick Altoft

Patrick Altoft — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:12:44 +0000

Dave, use this: http://www.google.com/support/analytics/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=55578

By: Dave Ashworth

Dave Ashworth — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:30:45 +0000

I see, I’ve had “Flagged – waiting for content check” before, but found this easier to sort myself than wait for Google to show up and take a look:

http://www.webmarketingadvisor.com/SEO-blog/why-won%E2%80%99t-my-google-local-business-listing-appear

Next question, how does one tag a listing?

By: Patrick Altoft

Patrick Altoft — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:27:26 +0000

If it says “Flagged, waiting for verification” then you need manual intervention. You need to tag your listings if you want to track traffic, I don’t rely on Googles impressions figures.

By: Dave Ashworth

Dave Ashworth — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:07:45 +0000

Patrick – I read this bit with interest:

“to get a local business listing in a lot of cases you need the help of a human at Google to manually approve your listing even after telephone or postal verification”

I’ve set some listings up in the past and they display as being active, even with some impressions, but I’ve never seen them! So am curious as to how you’ve determined if they still not live, and exactly how you go about getting this sorted?