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@JS Girard we don't usually see a fresh GBP on the sales side, unless a new dealership point has been opened, so mainly it is around the fixed ops side. When we compare review totals to monthly views or actions, we see a jump around 20 owner photos and reviews. I remember reading a local SEO...

We monitor several hundred automotive GBPs through a Looker/Jepto connection, and focus monthly on GBP search queries for each of the departmental profiles. Yes, we advise separate GBPs for sales, service, body shop, parts, Quick Lane (for Ford dealers) and even used cars if you have a separate...

Speaking of Performance Max ads, yes seeing strange landing page choices from Google's new black box happy meal, including blog and content pages for branding pmax ads. Very strange. @JeffClevelandTN thanks for your threads, they made me think of another explanation, curious if anyone supports...

Great question, I doubled checked and they do not. The only thing close is an interactive Google map widget that likely has other businesses embedded. Do you think Google could be sniffing those business names from there?

We monitor GBP reporting for hundreds of new car dealers in U.S. and Canada, and for a medium sized Chevy dealer seeing searches for restaurants, Kroger, Walmart in the top search queries? Screenshot attached. All 10 categories are automotive service related, services look normal, no reviews...

Seeing a doubling of discovery, but 15X on direct.

While we only monitor SC for a few customers, we have not seen any related issues. Looking at the specific search queries in the GBP admin tool, it appears to be dealer branded, or dealership-full-name or dealership-full-department-name searches.

We track GBP searches, views and actions for around 200 new car retailers, through a Jepto API into Data Studio. We are noticing more than half of these profiles received strange spikes in searches and views, but not actions. It is the same data we are seeing directly in the GBP dashboard...

@JoyHawkins we group them by dealership rooftop, for instance, Performance Chevrolet GBP Group would contain: Performance Chevrolet - Sales, Performance Chevrolet - Service, Performance Chevrolet - Parts, Performance Chevrolet - Body Shop. Sometimes also Used Cars, or Rental Cars if separate...

We monitor and report on several hundred automotive GBPs, and we have found a correlation with having department GBPs ungrouped, and having them marked as duplicates. We group them as our Data Studio API requires grouping, but may end up being a side benefit. The only dealers we've had issues...

@JoyHawkins , @whitespark while we don’t set up formal tests, we track hundreds of automotive GBP for sales, service, parts, collisio, and for new listings we see an inflection point around 20 owner photos and 20 reviews. Searches, views, actions, rise, Local Falcon map begins to widen with more...

Not sure if this is what you are looking for @Conor Treacy but the new GMBspy 2.0 allows you to harvest all 10 categories for top 20 GBPs for any search query. Use the Local Pack Tab, then download CSV of top 20.

Nathan, We monitor multiple GBPs for a few hundred U.S. and Canadian car dealers, and trend this data using a Google Data Studio report with GBP API. We definitely see that new Service, Body shop and Parts departmental GBPs tend to start off very slow, but once they get to 20 Owner Photos (and...

Seeing something strange for one of the dealerships we report on GBP, seeing a 9-month old review suddenly appears as new. It still has the 9 month old dealership response connected with this. I know there was a past bug like this, where Google would strip the response off old reviews and post...

Hi Holly! We manage the Google business profiles for hundreds of dealers, mainly franchise dealers. If a used car dealer used one of the categories for a new car make (I.e. Ford dealer”, it would almost never rank and only potentially appear if they were in a very rural area, and had specific...