While drinking my coffee this morning I noticed Google doing something new in their SERPS. I noticed that Google is putting plus map boxes on search engine result listing that have address information on that page.

Take a look when your search “eVisibility“. Notice the third listing down. It is our SEMPO profile with a map plus box.

Click on the plus sign and you get:

Also, take look at “Wynn Hotel” 9th result. It also has a map plus box and it looks like it is pulling from their profile www.i4vegas.com.

To me this looks very similar to what Yahoo is doing with their “Search Monkey” project.

All in all, I like this feature, but business owners be aware that the information is being pulled directly off third-party websites. So, if your information is outdated on these websites Google may still display it!

It would be nice if Google would reference the business owners Google local business center account address before displaying it.

Have fun chasing down and updating all your third party business listings! Let us know if you are seeing the same results by dropping a comment here, and let us know what sites you are getting the plus box from. If we get enough people to list the sites they get the plus box it could make it a bit easier to edit these third-party sites if need be.

UPDATE:

It is important to note that not everyone that has a listing on any of these sites will get you a plus box. We are not sure what is triggering these results in Google yet. I am also noticing that it is very random and that some of the more obscure sites are showing the plus box.

OK, I’ll get the list going here. So we are seeing the Google Map plus boxes from the following sites.
SEMPO
Alexa
TopSEOs
AboutUs.org
WilsonWeb.com
my3cents.com
investorwords.com
sectorpages.com
etc…