I had a problem with my listing, the marker for my location was not showing up in the right place. It was about 20 miles away from my office. I notified Google but that didn’t help.
I finally figured out what the problem was. When I set up the listing the guidelines said that if you service the customer at their home you should not show your address in your listing, so that’s the way that I did it. When I set it up I listed all the cities in my service area which showed up on their map. Google placed my map marker in the center of the service area, that’s why it was so far from my office.
I think there is a real downside to following their guidelines, your listing won’t show up very often and the marker won’t show your exact location. When I did a search for roofing companies where my office was I wasn’t even listed. The only way I could find my company was if I searched by name.
So today I changed my listing to show my address and now my listing shows up when I search for roofers in my area. What a PITA, I’ve had it set up wrong for over a year.
I finally figured out what the problem was. When I set up the listing the guidelines said that if you service the customer at their home you should not show your address in your listing, so that’s the way that I did it. When I set it up I listed all the cities in my service area which showed up on their map. Google placed my map marker in the center of the service area, that’s why it was so far from my office.
I think there is a real downside to following their guidelines, your listing won’t show up very often and the marker won’t show your exact location. When I did a search for roofing companies where my office was I wasn’t even listed. The only way I could find my company was if I searched by name.
So today I changed my listing to show my address and now my listing shows up when I search for roofers in my area. What a PITA, I’ve had it set up wrong for over a year.