Content by JS Girard in January, 2026

I suspect any kind of phone tree (possibly even stuff like being put on hold automatically) will cause the AI to immediately hang up. That would possibly explain a lot of these, wouldn't it?

Comin back to this, I realize I have a pretty important question: where you looking only at verified profiles? If not, was the proportion different between verified vs. unverified profile?

I've used @Phil Rozek 's "throw everything at the wall once a week" and have had good success with it in the past for networkds of spam listings. It's a little tedious, but when it works, it works.

I'm in Quebec, and it also fails for me. Although it's worth noting that LSAs are not available in Quebec.

I'm fairly sure that you can get hit, but that has nothing to do with the number of defined service ares. Rather it requires a stupidly oversized area, (even beyond the "2 hours/within the same metro area" metric that google mentions). Unless they're trying to reach like, a significant portion...

I meant adding the address via a user suggestion as Desnr was showing in their screenshots has never transformed a SAB into a pin-based profile for me 😅

IIRC, maps views includes literally any time the pin is visible on map at all, in any context. So I'd guess the answer has nothing to do whatsoever with search or optimisation and is that Google is showing a nearby pin over yours more frequently when people are looking at the map in general.

To the basic question "should I try to update the GBP address by having a friend suggest an edit first" the answer and the reason that Jason is right is not "no you shouldn't", it's that move edit suggestions simply do not work with SABs. At least I for one have never seen it work, though I...