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Thanks Miriam, appreciate your input!

Perhaps Google will add a way for Local results to represented as a group. We work with many chain restaurants and currently need to set up Google+ Local pages for each unit, which seems a bit overkill when there are 100 branches! As far as I know there isn't a way around this.

Cheers, Paul

Thanks everyone for your inputs.

In follow up to this, if you have a business, say a restaurant brand with multiple sites in one city.

For example: You target a fairly broad keyword phrase like: 'seafood restaurant london'. One site appears in the Local listings, with one address, but there are multiple sites for the same brand.

Obviously the result isn't accurate because the group is actually a good result for that keyword but only one unit within the group appears in the results, which might not be geographically ideal for the searcher.

Previously, the brands home page appeared in the organic results, now the single branch of the group appears in the Local listing.

Ideally Google local would work for a multi site brand with branches within a geographical area, but as far as I know it currently doesn't.

Anyone have insight into this conundrum?

Thanks!

Thanks Miriam, we are Pro members and sometimes it seems that our Local results don't seem to be included in our Moz rankings. Has anyone else experienced this?

Yeah I'd love to see a study on CTR Local Vs Organic for local, place orientated businesses.

Are Google Local position results included in Moz ranking reports? If not, how can these be tracked and monitored?

Is a Google Local result likely to achieve a similar CTR as previous organic results?

Some of our previous good organic search rankings seem to have been replaced by Google Local results for our restaurant and hotel clients. Is this likely to achieve the same traffic and if not, is there a way to get back to organic results?

Thanks!