Content by keyserholiday in March, 2026

I would never use "Lawyer" or "law firm" as the primary category when there are better options available. The other exception is if I am creating GBPs for each lawyer and don't want to use the same primary category as the main GBP. As far as the dominoes example, I would add pizza delivery as...

Something isn’t right here. The business should have admin access to the Wordpress website. Depending on the website is coded, most plugins won’t break the website. You could updated the meta data via FTP if you can gain access and know how to make edits that way. I’d ask them what access...

There is no hard rule for how many categories you should select. For example a law firm may offer different practices of law, personal injury, criminal defence, family law, divorce, and estate. They should use all of them. Google has been increasing the crawl of website to add and update...

There is a lot to unpack here. 1. Replying to reviews, adding posts, and photos do not increase rankings. 2. I have been hearing people worry about competitors attacking businesses since Google launched Panda in 2011. 3. I have caught Ben Fisher in repeated lies, so I don't trust him. Ben has...

I have heard several stories of r slings taking once you stop using these tools or services. I’ve never heard of anyone getting suspended over it. I am extremely skeptical of any claims. It’s hard enough to get Google to removed a fake review or suspend a GBP for showing the address or some of...

There are several reasons why a name gets changed. 1. A competitor or marketing agency is changing the names 2. You have a 3rd party tool making the changes. It's your business information, but it's Google's product.

Are you tracking only the main URL or internal URLs? Both cities or the opposite sides of Rancho Cucamonga. Look at how Smile Studio Dentistry does theirs. Upland and Fontana are on two different domains. Each website specially targets the city the dental practice is located in. The websites I...

Change the names of the existing GBPs

It’s an issue on Google’s end. The tool breaks from time to time. I have never heard of anybody being shadow banned for flagging and reporting reviews.

Yes, engagement is down with LSA and AI overviews.

Go and post int help forum. Make sure you make your details clearer. It’s hard to follow along.

Yes, @rustybrick has covered this on SEO Roundtable.

Google doesn’t suspend a GBP for a naming issue. Google has long stopped enforcing the naming guidelines along as it’s one keyword and one city.

One was the one that weighed to say that it doesn’t matter. Should you do a full rebrand, yes. Doesn’t it matter to Google? No. The Joint Chiropractic did a rebrand from The Joint… the Chiropractic Place prior to me coming on board in June 2016. Some of the old locations never updated their...

Yes, you can. You need to show in the video that it’s a different business. Make sure the phone and website are different. Make sure that the suite is left off or is different. You can contact support and have them perform a video call.

Done.

It’s that simple. Google doesn’t care if the signage, website logo or name on the website, vehicle wraps, or photos get updated. While you don’t have to update your citations, if you update them two weeks prior, it can make it easier to update your GBP.

When were they removed?

I noticed that as well. I am working on my write-up about it. There is one other website on that server. It’s another lead generation GBP.

Sadly, many of the GBPs that have purchased fake reviews, have lost any.

The admins don’t want people coming here to post links to the help forum. Please remove the links and stop doing it.

This depends. You will see an increase, decrease, or on a very rare occasion, no change at all. If the content is ranking well, don’t touch it. If you aren’t ranking well, then refresh it.

It takes a few days for the decreased review count to get updated.

That’s a lot of categories I would t expect to see. The businesses I know with fake reviews, haven’t been touched at all.