{"id":3012,"date":"2013-02-07T07:40:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T14:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/?p=3012"},"modified":"2014-12-04T13:15:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:15:40","slug":"one-code-verifies-google-local-pages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/google\/local-places-maps\/one-code-verifies-google-local-pages\/","title":{"rendered":"One Code Verifies Google+  \/ Local Pages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a high school friend whom I&#8217;ve helped with his website intermittently over the years, and I claimed his Google Local page for him quite a few years ago. \u00a0Last summer, I created a Google+ page for him also, and I never thought much about it after that.<\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago, I edited his Google Local page, adding his new logo and updating his photos, and of course, a verification was needed again. They sent a post card to him, and a couple of weeks later, I punched in the numbers and everything was fine.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I happened to look at his Google+ Local page, and saw a warning saying that the edits I had made (also a few weeks ago) wouldn&#8217;t be shown until I verified with a PIN, which was odd, because I&#8217;d never seen a Google+ page requiring verification before&#8230; Have you?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px;\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/imgpics.s3.amazonaws.com\/235af691fd144d96975c73e1ff7bd0ba.jpg\" width=\"482\" height=\"56\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Clicking around, I noticed that next to the business name it said &#8220;in-progress&#8221; \u00a0so I clicked there, and a box popped up saying they had mailed the verification card.<\/p>\n<p>At first I assumed it was another post card, and I was going to email him to watch for it, but then it dawned on me that I had just gone through the process a couple of weeks earlier.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/imgpics.s3.amazonaws.com\/90a01f8cb05f414a82f8b84c2392cbfd.jpg\" width=\"433\" height=\"182\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I dug up the email that he sent me after he received his other post card verification code, which\u00a0<em>I had already used at Google Places<\/em>, plugged that into the verification box, and to my surprise, it worked!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px;\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/imgpics.s3.amazonaws.com\/0afa9a6b9c4a4e94a60df3376a63f90c.jpg\" width=\"437\" height=\"179\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now he has BOTH a Google Local page and a Google+ page, but his\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/102754830887499706440\/about?gl=US&amp;hl=en-US\" target=\"_blank\">Places page looks like crap<\/a>, where the new logo and images are still not showing up, while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101678545351236007360\/posts\" target=\"_blank\">his Google + plus page<\/a>\u00a0looks pretty good.\u00a0 The two pages have not been &#8220;merged&#8221;, and I&#8217;m still on the fence about whether to do that or not.<\/p>\n<p>Last fall I merged my own web hosting business page after\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/localsearchforum.catalystemarketing.com\/google-business-pages\/359-video-how-merge-your-google-local-g.html\" target=\"_blank\">watching a video on how it was done<\/a>, and although it completely disappeared from the search results for nearly a month, it did come back, and it all seems to be completely fine now.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, most of the <a href=\"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/28\/having-issues-with-your-glocal-social-merge-my-advice-dont\/\" target=\"_blank\">advice out there warns NOT to merge the two<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0but I wonder if that advice might be changing soon, since clearly Google has been able to establish the relationship between the two pages on their own.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what I&#8217;ll do yet, but it&#8217;s nice to have high school friends to experiment on&#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a high school friend whom I&#8217;ve helped with his website intermittently over the years, and I claimed his Google Local page for him quite a few years ago. \u00a0Last summer, I created a Google+ page for him also, and I never thought much about it after that. 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