Recent content by JS Girard

I had a similar problem recently (link) and and one could help, I'm afraid.

Validate the new GBP if it's not validated yet and work on that. There's to my knowledge, literally no way to undo a merger (there are stories floating around, but they're always about two completely different businesses)

We've had multiple complaints about that and have found no way whatsoever. If the address doesn't exist on the map with the suite number (as oppose to a normal street address with suite number on line #2), you're out of luck.

I tested contractors, electricians and plumbers and couldn't see it. Mind you, half the issue might be Google needing to find appropriate external content, which may be a lot rarer in the general area of services. However, since malls and stores of all types appear be excluded, I'm tempted to...

it's weird because it only does that sometimes. Usually if you search the business by name in the Places interface, the section will be present.

More findings! Not a differentiator: Presence of at least one video (both nelson mandela park and Chin Chow have at least one) Possible differentiator: external content. Kamthai does have one item that's from reddit, but that item does NOT mention the restaurant!! This leads to the most...

Addendum: It's showing also for gyms.

reported by Valentina Vasileva via @whitespark on LinkedIn (Link to post) So I did some investigation, and here's what I'm finding: It's mostly in the hospitality and tourism/nightlife vertical: Bars, nightclubs, museums, movie theaters, restaurants, zoos, parks, video arcades: IN Doctors...

Yeah, I don't think you'll be able to get reviews actually transferred unless a gold product experts is involved. Also, note msot of the articles talking about that are from before Google support took a drastic nosedive in usefulness and competence!

unless you're losing significant amounts of *new* reviews (like, enough that your review flow is not stable month-to-month), yes. But I wouldn't for old reviews (who have done their job and don,t do much for rankings anymore) or individual ones. I think Jason's suggestion of asking customers to...

I'm not sure what exactly is going on, but I've never heard of a suspension (soft or otherwise) causing administrators or managers to be removed from a GBP. As Jason points out, a third party somehow validating the GBP would be a possibility (though I don't know how they would achieve that...

Ahhh. In my case it was a linkedin article and something on Search Engine Land.

Interesting. That wasn't present in the articles I saw (aside from one being a generic guest post kinda stuff)

I've now seen two things from two different people touting the idea that owner actions have a direct impact on ranking. Not on engagement, ranking. Things like uploading photos, making posts and answering reviews. Now don,t get me wrong. These are things that should be done, but I sure don't...

Usually the changes for threepacks are what I call "second order". it's not the rankings so much as google making... let's call them assignment decisions. i.e. whether a business should be on the right or not, whether a keyword ought to associate directly with a specific vertical, whether a...