Recent content by JS Girard

I'm going to wagers those press release were more than the mere fluff you usually see, but without knowing how exactly this press release test was different from any random new content ranking test, the "information" is pretty much entirely useless to any of us.

We already have this great example from @ElizabethRule, so it doesn't bode well.

What Elizabeth said. The reason it's a little complex is that while there is a basic "HVAC contractor" category which you can't go too wrong using, there's also like seven or eight subcategories that fit under that umbrella (and I'm not counting duct cleaning in that!).

Almost certainly unrelated, but easily overlooked: Quebec doesn't get LSAs, regardless of whether you're browsing in french or English.

When we had that happen three years ago, the user in question was showing unusually in the "People and access" section: a barred grey user icon (similar to the icon used for GBP groups, but grey and barred) instead of a photo or a letter on a random colored background. We haven't had another...

oh this is amazing, thanks for taking the time toi write this down.

In theory, that's what you're supposed to do, but how anyone who's not a high-level product expert can ever get reviews transferred is beyond me. We've never managed it, that's for sure. Even before support competence took that massive nosedive two years ago. Articles just say "contact support...

Yup! The competitor has google analytics parameters attached. I'm not entirely clear whether it's one specific parameter (i.e. gei or rwg_token) that is responsible, but I'm about 95% sure that Google Analyticst URLs get the Book online button regardless of whether the external provider is...

Can you share a link to the competitor profile? I have recently developed a theory, but I'm not 100% sure and this might confirm it.

There's a limit to how many unanswered claiming can be active. What you see is exactly what happens past that limit. I'm not clear whether this is a hard limit (the one we ran into was 10 requests) or whether it grows with the number of GBPs in the account similarly to the number of unverified...

Jason's point is more that too many people still think NAP consistency is a crucial ranking factor, or a ranking factor at all. There are other reasons to pay attention to it (especially on the major sources), but unless you need a move or a massive rebranding to go over smoothly, they are not...

I was going to comment about a caveat, but I see that at some point Google fixed the bug that caused all pharmacy- and bank-related queries to be displayed as branded queries. As for the logo, I thought it pulled from the brand panel, but it is correct there...

If by "everything is fully updated", you mean "everything already displays the intended Chandler address", then yes, it's okay. Because you are displaying a new address on a GBP with a previously (different) hidden one, it's almost impossible to avoid a revalidation anyway.

thanks. yeah I agree with you. I was curious since as I noted earlier I did not think of tracking the user profiles I had reported.

had the user profiles been reported individually? As in in google maps app separately from the extortion report