Comments on: Maps Guide Jen Suggested How to Demerge Listings; I’ve Just Been a Lazy Ass

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[...] sending signals to Google’s cluster that the businesses are in fact different. For example, changing both records to include a “Suite number” in the Local Business Center like Suite A and Suite B might [...]

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[...] I wrote a while back that Google Maps Guide Jen offered a way to demerge merged listings in Google Maps. Well, while things seem to have gotten better, it appears that the filtering on Google Maps still [...]

By: Gabriel Goldenberg

Gabriel Goldenberg — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 04:05:59 +0000

Well, I’m hoping it will – we’ve yet to see an improvement.

Thanks for your input on sources of merged listings. Interesting to hear that there may be multiple causes. Goes back to my initial post on the topic then, huh? Might be a sort of Googlebomb where the messy anchors on the links to the hotel have it tied up to the hostel.

By: Mike Blumenthal

Mike Blumenthal — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:41:17 +0000

Hi Gab-

Given that your businesses were at the same address with a very similar name, the solution that Google has provided will work.

It appears in the Google Group and in my experience that there are other causes of the problems…ie similar domain names, source directory confusion etc. Not all of these merged records can be solved this way.

Mike