Recent content by keyserholiday

All GBPs needs to match the real world name.

It can be depending on what type of business you are running. You will need to hide the address if you don’t have signage or serve customers at your address.

Since Google has switched everyone over to video verification, there is no way to create a GBM using a storage unit. In the off chance that you can trigger a phone verification, those GBPs are getting suspended within a few days.

I believe someone created a label. To test this, search the business name when you are not logged into Google.

No citation service can lock or prevent name changes. All Whitespark can do is email when an edit is accepted. Are you using any third-party tools to manage citations? I am noticing an uptick in suggest an edits being denied, so I doubt it's a competitor.

Yes, contact support for help.

This link is not worth the cost. For any link to count, the URL it's posted on must generate real traffic.

Post in the help forum.

If Google saw you as a duplicate, it would mark your GBP as a duplicate. It sounds like you are being filtered out by them. You need to figure out why. You can't contact GBP support for help with this.

It doesn't matter if your homepage targets Dallas or Grapevine. What matters is the city you are targeting you are linking to from your GBP

Go and post in the help forum. Maybe others are having a similar issue.

This happens quite frequently. I had the same thing a few weeks back. Give it a few hours to see if it works again.

The policy is you are not allowed set your service hours over two hours, but it’s not a hard set rule. They only enforce it when you get suspended and have to apply for reinstatement.

You are not allowed to have two GBPs with overlapping service areas. It has nothing to do with how close you are to the other GBPs. I could create GBPs for my LA client in San Gabriel, Pasadena, Sierra Madre, San Marino, Temple City, and Arcadia if the locations are occupied by owners of the...

They won't get filtered as they will have different categories. The issue is, can you prove to Google that they are two different offices with different staff? When you move the GBPs, Google will make you complete the video verification for both GBPs. You will need to show signage for both GBPs.