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How to verify your Google+ Local Listing with your old Google+ page?

How to verify your Google+ Local Listing with your old Google+ page, Because we are not able to verify it after google+ My Business feature update in G+ . Please Help +Edwin Jonk +Jim Munro ?
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  • Tech Blog Corner: How to verify your Google+ Local Listing with your old Google+ page, Because we are not able to verify it after google+ My Business feature update in G+ . Please Help +Edwin Jonk ;+Jim Munro ;
  • Edwin Jonk: I don't think that is possible. That is, you cannot verify your Local+ page with your Google+ page. Vice versa is possible.

    What you can do is "merge" [1] your Google+ page with your Local+ page [2]. In other words, if you have two pages (a Google+ and a Local+) and you want to connect them together. The Local+ page should already be verified [3]. After go to the Local+ page settings and under Profile you see a button Connect a different page. Click on that button, fill in your Google+ page and click next. It can take a couple of hours for the reviews to move over to the Google+ page which is now a Local+ page. The "old" Local+ page will be served with the mark-up Backup of <name> on Google+ but will no longer appear on Google Maps [4]. But you do have the option to delete the "old" Local+ page [5].

    I hope it makes sense. Otherwise here is a good article that walks you trough the process:
    http://localu.org/blog/google-now-allows-brand-pages-become-local-pages/

    [1] It is not really a merge in the sense that the Local+ page will disappear and re-direct to the Google+ page, because the "old" Local+ page will be served as a backup. In other words, the Local+ page URL will still be live but marked with Backup of <name>. However you have the option to delete the Local+ page.
    [2] https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/business/SUYXCmExm1I ;
    [3] ;https://support.google.com/business/answer/2911778?hl=en
    [4] ;https://support.google.com/business/answer/6010825?p=connect_maps
    [5] ;https://support.google.com/business/answer/4569146
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