Because I work for an SEO company in Pittsburgh, I tend to do quite a lot of local searches in and around the Pittsburgh metro area. At work we’ve been receiving some phone calls from people who think we’re Google - the latest was an event planner wanting to check up on conference plans. I hope whoever at Google was attending the conference got in touch with their planner, because apparently they didn’t already have your number - and I hope you consider using a different planner.
So I download the logfiles for our company website and take a look at the referrers - great, some traffic from Google maps. Then I find that we’re listed #1 for Google Pittsburgh PA
This coincides with a post Google just put out about local search: Find and compare local businesses, which I thought was quite amusing indeed!
So for any future planners or others wanting to find Google Pittsburgh they’re at:
Pittsburgh Engineering Office
4720 Forbes Avenue
Lower Level
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Incase this gets manually altered somehow… I’ve saved a screenshots for prosperity.
We’re also listed under the regular web search with an authoritative onebox listing:
Disclaimer: My company has never pretended to be Google or optimized/paid to be listed this way, this is just an example of Google’s own local search ranking algo, not quite getting it right.
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