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top bullet step 3 (assuming you are not bulk verifying) Verify your business on Google - Google Business Profile Help it has been pointed out that this does not work for all types of businesses.

I understand the sentiment. The point of (a) if I did GPB right and (b) verified by site with Google search console, I don't need to worry about anything... I am not 100% sold on that, but maybe I am just a pessimist :) GPB help page referencing multi-sourcing data(web crawl, 3rd party, etc,)...

Data aggregators & citation services may publish data to some of the same/overlapping directories. Directories will use entity resolution (name, address, phone, category) to identify which listings coming from multiple different sources are referring to the same business location to reduce...

REST Resource: accounts.locations | Google Business Profile APIs | Google for Developers REST Resource: accounts.locations | Google Business Profile APIs | Google for Developers RelationType The type relations to be specified. Enums RELATION_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED Type unspecified...

Most aggregators apply a trusted/managed flag to claimed listings in their repositories. This influences how publishers use the data as it typically viewed as more trustworthy than non-managed/aggregated data. Once management is no longer in place, aggregators will typically remove the...

two cents Pushing once to "aggregators" is okay, but not a best practice... Also, one push assumes that nothing about your business location identity (NAPC) or attributes (hours, etc.) will ever change. Aggregators also send out signals regarding 'active management' of locations that are...

Unfortunately, no. Google determines which verification options are available for a business profile.

api does not offer video verification as a verification method, so using the API seemingly would not result in needing to verify via video... if that is a pain point. current api verification methods - VerificationMethod | Google Business Profile APIs | Google for Developers also, you...

No NAP issue and good advice above on ways to improve your site/rankings. I noticed Localeze was not currently publishing a listing for this business so I added your listing to our repository to help with your citations. You can update any of the primary information (NAP+ category) listed by...

It seems that the tools GMB has given your to describe your areas of service do not fully "scratch the itch" of showing the real world area that a business will serve. Overlapping service areas across franchises of the same brand is major issue for those business owners/franchisees. In this...

Thank you for the reply Joy. Can you elaborate on the business challenges you see in being more granular than city? A couple thoughts: If service area is not represented with more granularity than city, accepting and publishing the "area served" will eventually result in bad real-world user...

In local search there are have been a few attempts at providing tools that allow SABs to define the areas that they serve: List of cities/counties/neighborhoods/zips Pro: easy for a business provide Con: can be misleading/not granular enough (eg a pizza restaurant likely doesn't deliver to an...

The name registered with the State could find its way out in the ecosystem, but that is not very likely. However, if this company has a business phone line, I would be more concerned with the business name associated to the phone(eg the biz name the telco company has for the phone) making its...

I have seen service areas added to GMB listings that were not initiated by the admins (GMB owners, managers, etc.) of a listing. Quick zip code rant... Zip codes are commonly mistaken as being geographies. Zip codes are really just for making delivering mail more efficient for the USPS. The...