Recent content by JS Girard

It's not entirely uncommon for a Canadian postal code to be the only part of the address that is incorrect on Google. Usually the first three characters (forward sortation area) are correct, but the last three are not not. Traditionally, we've fixed these with suggestions, with the presumption...

The only LLM (and even then, I believe only in English areas, maybe not all of them either) that currently reads GBP data is ask maps and Gemini/Google AI mode. So There's not really any GEO/AEO that can even be done on a GBP.

Good. Now if google could make it so that we don't have to get support's help for this kind of stuff in the first place, that would be great.

Oh! That's my bad. I've never heard of a change on a GBP affecting the ranking on the linked page, only ever in the other direction. Organic isn't my specialty, but I'd assume the page is falling under a subtle threshold or another. Location pages (if this is one) can easily fall prey to...

I can't recall if it was @whitespark or something from @JoyHawkins, but someone demonstrated that rankings could start falling as much as two hours before closing time (whether that correlates with distance has not been discussed, though).

I've seen bugs related to invisible characters in other parts of the profile (edits that could be neither rejected or accepted), but it's never cropped up in the business name!

What's infuriating about "located in" is that there's no owner control on it whatsoever. We've had several clients move away while leaving these in and every time it's a huge hassle to get rid of them afterward because Google systems are completely useless.

it was a known issue (late answer because I was on vacation) https://www.seroundtable.com/google-business-profiles-products-pending-status-bug-41793.html

Okay, then that specific bug is not the problem. I would start with suggested edits, since those are basically without risk, but it does look like the next step if that doesn't work is going to be Google Support.

Was the profile validated through phone call/text message? It sounds like the old "locked down phone number" issue I documented here, which could be caused by these validation methods. The smoking gun to confirm this bug usually is that if you make a manual suggested edit, you get an "edit...

Mika Lepisto posted on LinkedIn a purported way to send in an edit to SAB adresses. he has provided exactly zero actual evidence that these edits are accepter, much less applied. It's worth remembering that there is already a way to make the same suggestion, why has never had any effect. Under...

Pretty much everyone in the thread did. ANd no one has reported any problem with just slapping the URLs right back where they were before Google went crazy.

Honestly, when I was dealing with spam, I went manually reporting each GBPs for all the possible violations, week after week until 99% were gone. My only problem with that approach is that now I'm regularly running into that thing where clicking on the "submit" button does not do anything. I...

Can you ask Izyrank to search in a specified language? Because otherwise, it's probably design by a monolingual English speaker and searches in English. As someone who works almost exclusively With French language client, I only give minimal trust to any rank tester because I have yet to see a...

The algorithm wants what the algorithm wants. The problem is no one can tell what it wants. GBP age and review freshness probably a big part of it.