I'm not in charge of their places pages anymore. I know they're struggling with those pages right now. When I was there I switched back and forth between local and tracking 8xx numbers. As long as the numbers matched Google didn't have any issues.

Thanks for the response Stephen. Unless something with Google Places recently changed, it has been my experience that the phone number matching is the quickest way to get things straight and matching.

I used to place tracking numbers all over the place, at Checkered Flag, and it totally messed our Google Places pages up. As soon as I matched the phone numbers across the review sites, Google Places, and our store landing pages Google linked everything up.

I've only been out of Checkered Flag for a little over 7 months - did something drastic change in that time I'm not aware of?

Congratulations Rob!

Now that I'm looking at the analytics of thousands of dealers I'm seeing a lot of these same things Patrick. You're absolutely right; branding is HUGE!