Recent content by JoyHawkins

Yep, It's so bad I don't even really suggest spending time on it for most cases.

The cloud stacks aren't something Google is going to act on. It's unlikely they'll get a manual penalty and Google tends to deal with these algorithmically. If the name is listed on their website that is probably enough to make Google fine with the name. They are not overly consistent with...

You still always can try the community I posted.

If you link to a URL that Google doesn't have indexed, the edit likely won't stick. We actually see this a lot in the Google Business Profile Community where Google won't accept an edit to add a website on a GBP and the reason is because the site or page isn't indexed. I agree with what Jason...

I got some really awesome info from @krystaltaing that I wanted to share with you all. Is Q&A gone on Google? No - this has been removed from some surfaces and experiences but it is still available to businesses and consumers. Current Behavior of Google Q&A Q&A shows on businesses in Google...

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."