Web search finds 'wrong' physical address ???

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by akm, Nov 21, 2008.

  1. akm

    akm Sergeant

    Subject: ADA Adaptable, how to change 'wrong' address for web search result/s ???

    When search Google for subject business, get 'wrong' physical business address associated with business name (shows old residential address).

    Physical address is not posted on business web site (only POB is posted).

    Where does this 'wrong' physical address come from ?

    How can it be changed ?

    Not sure if this is the forum for this question, is there a better place to post this question ?
     
  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi

    Can narrow searches better with Advanced Search or using Search Strings http://www.googletutor.com/google-manual/

    Or if searching for businesses then the local online business directory is best as they are generally upto date as not always the companies webadmin has updates site contents as that one looks as if it has not (hope its not yours!) so if company doesnt update the website with new contact details then the search engines spider will only find the out of date info.

    http://www.superpages.com/bp/Seattle-WA/Ada-Adaptable-L0502223405.htm
     
  3. akm

    akm Sergeant

    Halo
    Thank you for the reply !

    Below are excerpt/s from post/s at...

    http://groups.google.com/group/Goog...e?lnk=gst&q=physical+address#3eee83358210446e

    which hopefully may help clarify the question.

    Afraid I am the novice 'webadmin' for the site at adaadaptable.com since we (father and son, Im the old guy) are a very small company and do not have a budget for too much outside help.

    All of the website info is uptodate, and has been for months, so not sure where the bad info is coming from.

    Please take a look at the discussion below if possible.
    Thanks again !




    From: Tim Abracadabra
    Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:37:07 -0800 (PST)
    Local: Fri, Nov 21 2008 7:37 am
    Subject: Re: ADA Adaptable, how to change 'wrong' address ???

    Hi akm,

    Where is this address showing, in the snippet under the title?

    Maybe that is what is in the meta description or if submitted to DMOZ that way, maybe Google is using the version from there.

    If that is the case, consider using the noodp meta tag to override the DMOZ data.

    More on that tag (and others) in this excellent Google post.
    http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/12/answering-more-pop...

    After that consider submitting a correction to DMOZ.

    If you need more help, please post your Site URL and maybe a link to an example of the incorrect search result.

    Hope that helps,
    Abracadabra




    From: akm
    Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:24:18 -0800 (PST)
    Local: Fri, Nov 21 2008 8:24 am
    Subject: Re: ADA Adaptable, how to change 'wrong' address ???

    Tim

    Thank you for the reply !

    Am not web savvy enough to know much about meta tags and/or DMOZ.

    When do a Google search for the business, 'ADA Adaptable Seattle', the first 'listing' (or link) is the maps.google.com, and under that (also shows wrong 'spelling', ie Ada Adaptable instead of ADA Adaptable) is shown the 'wrong' address.

    There was a time when Dex and Qwest had the address mixed up... maybe thats where its coming from.

    The web site is at 'adaadaptable.com' (created with Excel by yours
    truly, which allows for add keywords etc at 'Properties' menu).

    Very easy for novice to create a web page, so not much interested in
    changing that part (ie Excel).

    Dont see where we can post a picture (jpeg) in this post, but
    hopefully the above info will allow easy access to the example/s etc.

    Thanks again !




    From: akm
    Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:01:05 -0800 (PST)
    Local: Fri, Nov 21 2008 9:01 am
    Subject: Re: ADA Adaptable, how to change 'wrong' address ???

    Ps:

    Below the maps.google.com info and link there is a
    http://www.manta.com/coms2/dnbcompany_9bw0gs link which indicates that the address etc info may come from Dunn & Bradstreet.

    Called them and they will be updating in about a week... after they call back on the business line etc to confirm name etc.

    Dont understand why/how Google would get info from D&B... seems a
    little crazy.

    Any other ideas ?

    Thanks again.

    Pps: The link in your last post...

    http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/12/answering-more-pop...

    did not work.
     
  4. akm

    akm Sergeant

    Ps: Attachment show example of search result with 'wrong' physical address (and wrong name spelling, Ada Adaptable, instead of ADA Adaptable).
     

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  5. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi Akm

    Oooops! knew I'd stick my size 6s into it! ;)


    Quickly while I'm thinking of WHYS and how to fix, plus webstuff is not my strong suit, but how long ago was it you changed the sites address on that main page to the proper one? thinking is Googles spiders while good may miss out sites with lower hit rates than other for a while. Weird is Google Maps have it correct.
     
  6. akm

    akm Sergeant

    No problem on the foot, we do it all the time :)

    We dont have the physical business address (5220 Roosevelt Way NE, dont think Google has it correct, they show 7604 an old house address) on the web site, only the POB.

    Is there a place to add the physical address in a tag buried in the code so that we dont need to show it, but it would be picked up by Google ?
     
  7. thesmokingun

    thesmokingun MajorGeek

    what you might want to do is submit your url to google to have it check it again, and then it might put it ahead of any of the other ones, since it is newer...

    http://www.google.com/addurl/
     
  8. akm

    akm Sergeant


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