Being a employee of largest bank of India (State Bank of India) would like to add/update the Name, location, contact number, website and business hours of the branches of State Bank of India. I have the official list of each branch. Meanwhile, I have noticed that most of my edits related to bank auto denied at the moment and this is the reason I have intentionally left the incorrect information already there in Google Map. Due to merger of banks in India, many branches either have been closed or shifted to nearby location. Most branches still showing old contact number in Google Map, which needs to be updated. Please advice as how to add/update details in Google Map so that public/customers can get right information.
As a representative of a bank you can claim the relevant listings. But do not do this from your private LG account. And make sure the bank knows and approves of your actions.
After getting verified as the owner you will be able to make changes. Banks are very difficult if not impossible to edit for Local Guides due to previous spam problems.
Businesses with many branches can maintain a spreadsheet and upload this information to Google Maps regularly. This will be easier than doing it manually.
Agree with you. Meanwhile, I am not here as a representative of my employer (Bank). I have asking for help and suggestion to correct the incorrect/old details in GM. I am well versed with GMB too. Not every feature in GM is claimed business. For example, recently in my locality a new bank branch has been opened. I have tried 2-3 times to add the feature in GM but unfortunately NOT APPLIED within a second even after I have followed the guidelines like uploading geotagged Photo, contact No, website, business hour etc. Any suggestion ?
I’m afraid your options are close to zero. The spam problems in India made it nessesary to block LGs from getting anything approved on banks. I speculate that spammers in the past changed the phone numbers of banks and used this to trick consumers to believe they were actually calling from the bank.
I’m sorry. I don’t have any trick to apply here. Except push for the banks to claim and correct their information on Google Maps including ATMs.
Yes, It happening in India, spammers have changed the contact number of banks in GM. This is the reason I am trying to correct them with official data. Let’s the data unchanged.
Scammers it is not an issue related to India, @MortenCopenhagen , it is a worldwide issue (please not that I have used scammers, instead of spammers, because this is the true reality behind some edit).
This is why it is strongly suggested to invite only the registered owner to modify sensitive places like the banks are, @HsRawal . A bank can easily add a branch in their GMB account, and fix in one shot all the wrong information.
And it would be easier for us to inform the bank than to try to make an edit on sensitive locations