Recent content by JS Girard

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.

... really? have I been missing a crucial bit cause that first post clearly state "There's no pending or under-review banner anywhere." If you mean they can't afford the risk of causing a reverification, that's a completely different issue. That being said, as long as they can verify at all...

In the past, I've solved this bug putting the address back in the dashboard. If you input the EXACT SAME thing that was in originally entered (which may not be what is displayed on map!), usually there is no suspension/revalidation. When it's accepted, you can try hide the address again. Usually the

You can't control it. It shows every predefined service available from the category (or maybe all the categories. it's been a long time since I ran into this so I don,t recall), whether or not they have been actually activated in the gbp. Actually, it has a limit on how many it shows...