| Husband and wife local listing | sue.f | 9/10/09 5:27 AM | My local listing seems to have been merged with my husbands. He is an osteopath, I am a podiatrist. OK we are married, we live in the same house so have the same home address – this is I suspect not unusual. We have different telephone numbers (altho |
| Re: Husband and wife local listing | sue.f | 9/11/09 4:03 AM | Any response from Google? |
| Re: Husband and wife local listing | sue.f | 9/12/09 1:30 AM | This is just making the Google map search look useless and inaccurate. How can I fix this? This is discrimination. I need an answer - are a husband and wife allowed separate entries and if not why not. What would happen if the husband was a garage me |
| Re: Husband and wife local listing | mblumenthal | 9/12/09 6:40 AM | Sue You have fallen prey to a "feature" in Google Maps that merges businesses' listings because the Google clustering algo "thinks" that they are the same business. It sometimes occurs to businesses at the same address and/or competitors at nearby ad |
| Re: Husband and wife local listing | sue.f | 9/14/09 4:24 AM | Thank you so much for coming up with some suggestions. "Suite" isn't right for the UK market but I have removed our shared fax number and I have added an extra line above the address, one saying Osteopathic Clinic, and the other saying Chiropody and |
| Re: Husband and wife local listing | mblumenthal | 9/14/09 2:17 PM | Well if Suite # isn't exactly correct, how do English office buildings distinguish one office from another? We are having a discussion about your issue at my blog. |
| Re: Husband and wife local listing | radicalqt | 9/15/09 5:11 PM | You are not alone in this problem. I have two different types of photography services that I offer, two websites and two different company names ....though somewhat similar and the business listing is using the wrong website for my wedding photograph |
| Re: Husband and wife local listing | Joel H | 9/21/09 5:21 PM | Hi Sue - sorry this is happening to the business. Removing the shared fax number is a great first step. It will take a few weeks before we pick up the change in our clustering, so try to stick with it. Please don't delete the listing. That will likel |