Recent content by JS Girard

Nothing aside from the mass edits that came along. A mass edit to names and payment methods shortly before, and now the edit to social media profiles. Also saw a warning I'd not seen before about the pin being "too far from the address" on a GBP and demanding that it be fixed. The problem was...

In five years I've been collecting articles, I've seen no test going in that direction. I have recently seen one test indicating that it can be good for organic web results though. SearchPilot saw a statistically significant dip in traffic after removing embedded maps from location pages.

So it's as if the edit was fully reverted? While I haven't encountered that directly, I can imagine a full-country service area causing that. Or is the edit still actually showing hidden in the NMX dashboard, yet visible on map? That second one is the situation I have ran into multiple times...

When reading this post previously I thought The "phone number in image" Bernadette is referring to is the "4-wheeler number" mentioned in the email. Can you confirm, Bernadette? If not, then I agree with Colan, an incidental phone number in the photo should not be a problem. That being said...

I'm a little confused. Is the problem that the GBPs were abruptly suspended or something about the address being shown despite an edit to hide having been supposedly accepted? The latter I do have some experience with (you can check for that bug by checking whether google sistematically rejects...

I don't need to be told that. I've been complaining about it to my bosses for years. It's not like it was my own dan decision. And no, the usual methods is exactly what I don't want to do because half the time we do not have owner access to do it in the first palace, as I specifically stated in...

I have finally managed to convince my boss that we should manage permissions to the GBPs we manage like a normal agency (currently everyone logs directly into like 15 different accounts and we recently his the limit of allowed simultaneous logins, which is causing a lot of very creative but also...

Google doesn't treat any admin level differently from another. Whether it's a state, a County, a village, or a neighborhood the side of a handkerchief, the question is always "are there actual limits on the map when i search for it?" This is somewhat more of an issue in Quebec, where MANY...

it's not about how many or neighborhood vs. boroughs vs. cities (which is a meaningless question to ask anyway because what a "borough" is can vary considerably between jurisdictions!), it's about how they're conceived and written. Rickety Roo recently had a decent write-up about that.

He means that the icon for the reactions has changed. It's either a test or not deployed in other languages, 'cause I still see the thumb up in Quebec:

Thanks for the confirmation. BTW, how is the payment option labelled in English? I've been wondering, but my colleagues won't be happy if I switch the account's language just to check that 😅 I double-checked a dozen of our chiropractors to be sure and am not seeing it on any of them, so it's...

Lodgings is notoriously weird in GBP. Could google be requiring the information come from a different source?

in my experience, B2B and B2C are very different beasts as far as GBP goes. I still think Google cannot completely be ignored even if it's not a direct source of leads because if a prospect ever needs to look you up/research you, they're probably going through google in some way.

I think a lot of people have been saying what can be summarized as "you cannot afford to ignore Google, but you should be figuring out other ways to get good leads" even before things started going to shit.

Our dentists recently gained a new payment method (I dunno what it is in English, but in french it means "payment plans"). On Blusky, @rustybrick says he thinks it's a general health thing, but I can't see it on any other health verticals (checked medical clinic, physical therapist, massage...