GM Dealers - Is your Cobalt Site Linked to Your Places Page?

[Brent Palen]

This is one for all of the GM Dealers that made the choice to keep their existing site when you were required to get a Cobalt site, thus ending up with 2 websites. Did you notice that your Google Places page now has your Cobalt site listed?

This is a big problem since we do not want people that visit our Places page to end up on a subpar site. Does anyone have any information on this?

 

[Billfred]

Cobalt sent me a blast indicating they were going to do this. I emailed our rep, and supposedly they were only going to do this to unclaimed listings. (As of post time, our eBizAutos site is still listed in our place.) Was yours claimed and verified?

 

[ajholland]

Billfred is right, there was an email blast about 1 month ago or so that said they were going to claim all of the unclaimed listings. Was yours claimed already?

 

[Brent Palen]

I must have missed the email, but yest we have had ours claimed for several years now.

 

[jdavidson]

I have had our claimed for many years as well. I did receive the email on 1/12 and it does say "unclaimed" pages. I just sent an email to my Procare Advocate to find out what is going on with this.

 

[Blake Arbogast]

Had this problem two weeks ago. My "claimed listing" was edited by GM, didn't know that was possible. Talked with a Google Places rep at DMSC conference and was told to go to Places Help and click on My Listing has incorrect information.

My listing was fixed in two days.

The Google Rep also said they are working to beef up their support staff by the end of the year. Thank the good Lord!

If you have any questions hit me up.

 

[Brent Palen]

It's fixed now! Apparently the edits that we did over the weekend finally took hold. I hope they stay that way. I am interested to know how Cobalt did this since we do have an owner verified listing.

 

[Jason Walter]

Noticed it as well and sent an email to Google. They fixed it within a week. Spoke to Cobalt about it and they sent me some PDF on how to get it reversed but had better luck with Google.

 

[sweece]

Is this a joke? Cobalt once again proves how stupid they really are with things like this. Who's running the show over there?

 

[Jan_c]

Check the edit history. Click on arrow by 'more', drop down to History. I just did an audit of a number of GM dealers who don't use their factory site as primary and their website listings were changed on January 25, 2012 in the overnight hours. Includes Owner Verified and optimized Places Pages.

FYI, The phone numbers were also potentially changed to call tracking numbers.