Recent content by fisicx

Is it really a bug? The profile and reviews were for a business in City A. If you move to City B it as if you are a new business in that area, the customers will be different and even the level of service may change. Plus there could be different local laws that require new registration...

If you have a new address maybe the SAB has moved and therefore no longer valid. New address = new SAB.

Statistically your findings are insignificant when compared to the number of reviews posted each day. And they may not even be paid for. There are a huge number of local guides writing reviews for businesses they have never used. They do this to build up their ratings so they can then sell their...

There are millions of fake reviews reported daily. And for every million taken down another million are posted. Google may not even have read your report. It's an automated process (probably with some AI bot doing thing), no humans ever get involved. Something might happen one day. Or it might...

Which all comes back to the point I made earlier: use these tools to monitor trends. Don't rely on them for absolute position. If the number of enquiries remains the same then there is nothing to worry about. If the number falls then do some investigation. I remember being told many years ago...

Ignore the tracking tools. At best they will indicate trends. And you can mostly ignore your human checking as well. The only thing you need to check is the number of new leads you get each day. They will tell you far more about how well your website performs than worrying about ranking.

Just follow the instruction on the google guide. But as @keyserholiday said, you will struggle to get verified. An office with a sign above the door for each location will help as will business registrations in that location. I suspect this is going to be far more trouble than it's worth.

Complete twaddle. Websites do not need to be updated if the content is still valid. I know businesses with a one page site that hasn't been touched in years - they just use it a signpost to other channels (such as FB) and their booking system (on another website).

I'd keep it simple and set up a GBP for each service area following these guidelines: https://support.google.com/business/answer/9157481?hl=en-GB The key seems to be the 2 hour driving limit to define the boundaries of the service areas.

Have you lost control of the account? Has someone else gained access and locked you out?

Is each location a franchise, part of a chain or totally independent?

Depends on the page. A long report on climate change for example would certainly need a TOC. Many posts wouldn't need a TOC as they tend to be short and much more direct. For example a post about an event in the local area a business is attending. Or a post about a supplier they are endorsing.

TBH there is nothing new about this. Fraudulent reviews are common place and whilst Google does remove millions of fake reviews each time they do millions more appear. The likes of @keyserholiday are fighting this tsunami all the time but now AI tools have come into being one suspects it's going...

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Maybe it's Google realising almost nobody ever goes past page one in their local search so are saving considerable resources by not showing hundreds of results.