Recent content by JoyHawkins

I like looking at how this grows year over year. In 2023, Google removed over 170 million. This is up 45% from 2022. Well in 2024, it's up to 245 million. That's another 44% increase. While I'm sure Google makes it look like this is because they are getting better at catching fake reviews, to...

For the top layout, I have seen that for a while but not for every type of business.

If you are adding different users to all the locations, that could possibly be what is causing the suspensions if the user isn't trusted. I've seen this happen with a franchise who had to add all the store owners. Often the suspension was the specific store owner's account being the issue.

I have heard of there being a timeline for deleted listings but I'm not sure 21 days is correct. I would post on the Google business community as Nafiz recommended.

Let us know how it goes!

Yep, contact support and they should be able to do this. There is a good chance they're just going to give you a standard answer that you have to create a new listing for the one that they merged.

I consulted with Google on this before publishing my advice on how to move a service area business. Currently, the advice is always to create a new listing and then contact Google to mark the old one as moved. If you try to update the current one, it can screw up and continue to rank in the old...

Google just told us this issue is fixed.

Have you posted in the Google Business Profile community about these bugs? The first one I heard about yesterday on X and probably will get fixed fairly quickly.

Just heard from Google on this: "Google is aware of the issue and a fix is in progress. Updates will be provided as soon as the team shares them with us."

We have asked Google what's going on so I'll let you know when I hear back. It's likely something broke.

I started seeing them again recently. Google hasn't stated anywhere publicly that they are going to be removing the feature so it's possible they were just missing due to a technical issue. I agree with Jason - it's one of the stupidest features GBP has.

I haven't heard or seen anything yet.

Interesting. That isn't a trend I have heard of or experienced.

I use it all the time. The only thing that happens is it sometimes doesn't load. I haven't ever seen the data be incorrect though.