Recent content by JS Girard

This should be a separate thread.

TBH, my presumption these days is that it's now in Google's favor to have SEO data be as unreliable as possible, hence why I do not actually believe API is safe. I expect that any time we could see the API discontinued with the excuse that too many bots were using it.

Is this a large agency account With a lot of invites going out? You may know that there is a limit to how many GBPs you can have in an account that are not at "verified" status. Once you hit this limit, you are unable to create new GBPs. Invites have a similar limit: you can only have so many...

I've not seen this question brought up in the Local SEO sphere, but since we've started developing a tool to do non-english geogrids (since no one else is interested in doing that...), it's now a question I ought to wonder. Has anyone in the industry considered this and how/whether we even have...

You cannot have the exact same service under more than one category. Google will not save it, so that question is moot. I have asked in this forum before, but no one knows whether it makes a difference to put custom services under your main category or secondary categories.

Personally I would, but It's worth noting that for reasons unique to us we don't usually add stuff like descriptions and pricing info. Description and price do not affect ranking, so if you include anything like that, pick the formulation you want to use as the "default" and only add a...

Accidental exposure of client or third party information/faces? I seem to recall that's an easily overlooked trigger for rejection.

For me it's been relentlessly reporting. I would block out an hour or two each week and go through the list, Reporting every listing three times: non existent, spam, not open to the public. As long as you're not in that weird buggy space where clicking on "send" does not actually send in the...

It also sounds like they would have been left by people that Google could tell had been on very close to the premises, so wouldn't look particularly suspicious form a geolocation point of view.

These are all issues we've run in over the years in Quebec. Yes, including completely missing streets. Given that afaik, Google does not buy external data anymore (I believe the last time was, was, in 2012??), that should surprise no one. And believe me when I say support is NOT supportive for...

I have a few strategies, but I'd like to hear people,s stories about extremes, particularly those that prevent even creating the GBP at all: The city in the address does not exist in Google The city name used by google for the address is incorrect The street name has changed since Google's last...

Oh yeah, that too! Remember the guy @rustybrick reported on recently who was spamming fake photos with spam phone numbers on them?

Wasn't some form photo verification abused massively by a spammer to validate a bunch of GBPs with tool photos some times back?

No, It doesn't matter who has made the suggestion or clicked on the email link. What I mean is that when clicking on "the suggestion is correct", Google performs and saves an owner edit instead of treating it as a suggestion being accepted. In other words, as far as how Google actually enacts...

llms.txt means literally nothing, as proven by every single test made about it. And No AI ingests schemas as anything else than base text, so I don't why either of those would be relevant in any shape or form to "AI readiness".