Recent content by JS Girard

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    Approving Google's Map Pin Edit

    Actually, the pin is already moved. Google is just being polite and letting you know it has done so. Note that there is no option to actually reject the edit. Not on the individual profile anyway. That's tuckered away in the multi-profile management dashboard (or however the hell google wants us...
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    Now an offiial automated message from Google about GBP?

    Yes it is, see this other thread discussing precisely that feature. Annoying of google to be like "pleeeease let us bombard you with calls" about it, though.
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    Google is testing call button in organic search?

    May be limited. Can't reproduced in Montreal at all.
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    Google Removing Booking URLs from Business Profiles

    Follow up: turns out those email aren't sent to the agency account email (I couldn't be sure because we also transitioned from direct access to managed access at around the same time...). I was able to confirm by looking at our non-agency accounts that the original email did start in January 2026.
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    Google Removing Booking URLs from Business Profiles

    Is this an actual new email or just a rewording of the previous email? Going back (dealing with those emails is not part of my assigned tasks), I note that many link that google calls "broken" were clearly not. Before March 22, the emails said "Un lien de rendez-vous est brisé sur votre profil...
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    Stopping Google Creating Places Listings for Website/Businesses that are not Eligible

    You can signal the unverified profiles so Google will remove them. @Phil Rozek's multiple report tactic has been very efficient for me in the past. Slightly less so now that I regularly encounter cases where clicking the submit button doesn't register. If their existence is not a problem for...
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    AI Overview Replacing Map Pack - Anyone Else Seen It Yet?

    I have not seen it yet in Quebec. I think it might still be language or geographically restricted.
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    SAB ranking/getting calls from too far away

    We have a client (mobile mechanic) getting calls from way outside their service zone. This is not a move issue, they still get normal call, google is just ranking them over an unusually large area. I've checked and double checked and the base optimisation is actually targeted fairly tightly at...
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    How We Know Google Trusts BBB Accredited Businesses

    I assume there is no hard evidence this goes beyond the verification process? 'cause I believe it's been looked at for ranking before, hasn't it?
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    GBP for Appointment-Only Second Physical Location?

    1. Technically yes, but a separate number is preferable for both tracking purposes and to minimize the risk of mergers. 2. Google has explicitly said that is what their hours are supposed to mean (which is why SABs can have hours beyond when they actually go out: as long as someone will answer...
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    Why GBP “Confirm” Button Keeps Loading (No Update Happens) Anyone Notices...!!!

    It's been around longer than that. It's in the bug compendium I posted back in 2023 (listed as "Nonfunctional "confirm google suggestions" button bug"). I seem to recall the solution listed in that compendium doesn't work anymore though.
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    Why BestLawFirms.com is Dominating on Google

    Expertise.com literally doesn't have separate listing pages for individual businesses, as far as I can tell. The linking structure is also really annoying. If I'm on the "legal experts for [State]" and there is a list of city links, then I expect these to be "legal experts in [City]", right? But...
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    TIP: Deleting a Google Business Profile

    I know that. What I mean is: > No message ➡`instant deletion > Message ➡ Not instantly deleted ➡ (Are those harder to delete via suggestions compared to other unowned profiles?)
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    Getting ready to delete 400+ articles on our site :)

    Well, My assumption was that there would be little to no such internal links left since you were deleting the pages, though I should probably have said that for clarity 😅 Yeah, that too. Google keeps saying that unless you have literally thousands upon thousands of page, you probably don't need...

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