Recent content by JS Girard

please don't dump this in threads were it's not relevant. No one has said anything remotely related to NAP consistency.

While I'm not familiar with this area, I understand that image-based seo has different angles. Your results in image search vs. just getting an image/the right image in organic results vs. getting the perfect image for a featured snippet etc. There's also the angle of whether to use stock vs...

I noticed that too, and it's really problematic for us because we have over 1400 GBPs in the damn thing, a number that we expect to rise to 2k by the time we're done repatriating GBPs currently scattered amongst separate accounts (we're not sure how high exactly because many GBPs are in multiple...

This sounds like a situation where the GBP was controlled by a different account and you had to "steal it" by revalidating it to get control. IF the above situation is what happened, then all content added by the previous profile owner is irrecoverably gone. Because in that situation Google...

yeah, though it's no younger than the others: it's from 2021 with the changed date trick for SEO purposes.

My advice is: If you haven't validated yet, validate at the address that's on file. Otherwise the Google agent will get pissy about that. Don't be afraid to adjust the map pin position even before the validation. That should not be an issue anymore (and if nervous you can use suggestions). If...

Try to change the address manually via suggestion post-validation? It's been about our only successful trick.

A review gator is an absolutely fantastic mental image:

Mix and match is recommended to at least try and minimize filtering issues. I can't seem to find them right this moment, but @JoyHawkins has some videos/blog posts on the exact issue of practitioners vs. clinics at the same location.

Do you mean when you look at the profile as a visitor, or when you go in to edit the description? Google only displays service descriptions to users on mobile or in the desktop LSA display (at least in Quebec, see image, I don't know is non-LSA profiles can be in that display outside Quebec)...

that relates to filtering issues only. What we're seeing here is a normalization issue, i,e. how Google chooses to display the address. It's in the same ballpark as google choosing to abbreviation "Thomson Road" to "Thomson Rd" or even translating words like "Route" and "Rue" between French vs...

It's the Spanish-language version of "USA" (for Estados Unidos). Probably showing because you or your client is using an account setup in Spanish. Ring me if you run into a weird "the dashboard shows that the name change is accepted but it's not showing on Google Maps", because cross-language...

Okay, this depends HEAVILY whether you mean GBP stats specifically (GBP ranking do not take AIOs into account, just as they ignore all the organic results on the page) or organic local, which are affected the same as any other website. IIRC (but please don't quote me on this: I don't touch...

Sounds like a typical AIO-linked decoupling. Have AIOs begun to appear on new queries relevant to your clients? Would make sense that would happen during a core update.

No impact on performance, as noted by Jason, but unlike him I say if your client ask for it, go for it. No harm done.