: How to add your business website to Google Places with multiple addresses but less than 10 I know how to add a business website to Google Places with one address. I know how to add a business

@Megan663

Here is a forum that discusses this question. User "adriver38" asked this question to Google and got the following response: (emphasis addid)


You can create a new Places Page for your new restaurant location by selecting "add another business" within your Google Places dashboard. The new page will take a couple of weeks to show up in search.


Google requires the the second location to have a second listing. Creating a second listing for the business uses the same procedure that you used to create the original listing for the business. You may have expected to be able to add a second address to an existing listing when you actually have to create an entirely new listing.

I have never personally added a business to Google places. In my Google places interface I have an "Add a listing" link in the gear drop down. This would presumably change to "Add another business" after I added my first business.





This advice should apply for businesses that have multiple physical addresses. For example a restaurant with three franchise locations. Google Places quality guidelines limit the number of listings that can be created for a single business:


Do not create more than one listing for each business location, either in a single account or multiple accounts.


Individual practitioners may be listed individually as long as those practitioners are public-facing within their parent organization. Common examples of such practitioners are doctors, dentists, lawyers, and real estate agents. The practitioner should be directly contactable at the verified location during stated hours. A practitioner should not have multiple listings to cover all of his or her specializations.
Departments within businesses, universities, hospitals, and government buildings may be listed separately. These departments must be publicly distinct as entities or groups within their parent organization, and ideally will have separate phone numbers and/or customer entrances.



It appears to help if each physical location has a unique URL. Here is a forum where they discuss creating multiple Google places listings. User "vzPRO" says:


I also direct each Google Local listing to an associated page on the website that talks about that location. For example, the main Location will point to example.com/mainlocation, the second location is linked to example.com/location-2, etc.


Matt Cutts repeats this advice on his blog:


...it’s best to have a unique, easily crawlable url for each store. Ideally, you would also create an HTML sitemap that points to the web pages for your stores (and each web page should have a unique url). If you have a relatively small number of stores, you could have a single page that links to all your stores


To wrap it all up, here is an article that walks through adding multiple business locations to Google Places. It has screenshots (included below) and discusses the process for both individual additions as well as the bulk upload.

Screenshot of adding business to Google Places www.seomaverick.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Example-Google-Places-Information1.png

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