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the site we are working with that experienced a current drop as well.

SEO5,

Is there a specific tool you used to find over optimization or was it a spot check? I am dealing with a similar situation.  Our website has been on the top page of Google for the keyword plumbing for years and just dropped to position 81.. The only things we have been doing is the things that Seomoz.org suggests like adding schema.org information, and adding more user qualified content.  (no keyword specification really)

We haven't created Plus Pages for their locations yet. Too risky since one of our main products is working with their Place Pages.

I'm curious to see if anyone has come up against this same thing and how Google will respond to it. I work with a franchise company that has hundreds of locations. The company has unique sub pages set up for each location and a Google Places listing for each location.

My question is can I set up a Google Plus business pages for each location, with the same name (different address), and all within one gmail address.

My concerns are that when you select "Local Business" as the category for the Plus page it asks for a phone number. Well, after I insert the phone number it accurately pulls up our Place listing. However, my concern is having multiple Plus pages with the same Name in the "basic info" section. Will Google Plus reject multiple pages with the same name?

I also don't want to change the name on the plus page and then cause a duplicate listing created in Google Places, due to the same address different name connection. I suspect a merge between Pages and Places so I don't want to negatively impact my Place listings.

Any thoughts on this or Franchise Plus Pages?