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How to Claim your Business Listing in Google+ (Google Plus) for FREE

Google populates its local business listings from outside data sources such as phone directories (yellowpages, i.e Yell) and other such sources. All these listings are initially "unverified" and business owners are responsible for claiming their listing before they can edit it.

If you have not yet claimed your business in Google+, please DO IT NOW!. There have been many reports of unclaimed listings being hijacked by spammers, competitors and crooks. Claiming your listing will help to prevent this happening to your business.

If your business is not already listed, maybe you're not in a phone book or other source, you can add new business listings as well.

Google+ Listings

First check to see if your business is listed in Google Maps. Do a search for your business name and include your town name or county in the search query.


If your listing already exists, and you've not yet claimed it, the results will indicate that it is an "unverified listing".

If your listing does not show up here then you can go and submit a new business listing
In some cases you may notice incorrect data, maybe a wrong phone number or old address. Don't worry about that, you'll be able to edit that after you claim it.


Now click on the linked title of your business in the search results, or on the "more info" link. You are presented with different views depending on which link you click, but you get all the same info.

If this proves too daunting then please go to this website which will explain how you can manually claim your Google + page, although this is for Google Places this is basically the same process

Please go here for more details on how to claim your Google Plus account

And if all else fails and you like to know how to get your business up and running, using the Power of the Internet for your business, please give me a call, or email me below. This is a free service provided by Google for local businesses around Havant, Portsmouth and also Hampshire.

Claiming your Google Plus page will add more traffic to your website, and in turn will get customers contacting you for business.




Mark Wallace

Mob: 0779 6606981
Phone: 023 92 410116
Email: mwwallace50@gmail.com


P.S. You will get more views and customers once your listing is ranked higher.

Step by Step Guide to the Google+ Business/Local Merge Verification Process