Content by d2minc in December, 2025

@whitespark - or anyone else - Have you ever seen/had experience with this happening before? Where a business switches from an address showing to service area (SAB - address hidden) - and the rankings are now from the center of the service area as opposed to the verified location/address...

Wouldn't that erase all the age of the GBP? Or no?

Day 2 - still the same?

Day 1: New GBP service area - https://static.md/875d4ada3aba7ee7ab3bfb5012a6512a.png Grid set on center of new GBP service area - https://static.md/f9ceca9083b12796127ce5d00794a63e.png Still ranking at original center of service area - https://static.md/9f90578f38348009cad614cbc5a8b264.png

Service area was changed from - Riverside County, San Bernardino County, Jurupa Valley, CA - to just - Riverside, CA, San Bernardino, CA, Jurupa Valley, CA (pretty small area overall). Edits still pending in GBP dashboard? But I’ll check and re-run the grids over next couple days and see what...

1. No 2. Yes Setting smaller service area to test was my next thought/step. Will try and report back. Thanks!

The address that "was" showing (where the google icon is on the screenshot) has never changes since they originally verified the listing several years ago.

It was reverified (suspension removed on 11/5/2025) - and actually then the address was put back by Google. Then later Google removed it (on 11/18/25). Pretty confusing since 2 things that are against guidelines (address showing and business name) were put back as they were (after suspension was...

Recently client who had address showing (for a long time so we left it when they became a client) on GBP was suspended. So had to change to hide the address (make SAB) and successfully appealed the suspension. - https://share.google/CrdaDL7FuCKfjFNCT Yes, it also has keywords in the business...