Recent content by keyserholiday

You have to love Google math. Google removed 245M reviews. 15.1% were removed because they were deemed fake or misleading. The rest of the percentages don't equal 100%. While Google loves to talk about the strides it makes, it leaves a lot to be desired.

Brad Wutheral says this allowed.

With how incompetent “support” is I doubt they will check or no the rule.

Google won’t merge GBPs using different addresses. You can try and update the addresses and then ask Google to merge them.

I am trying to see if anything has changed.

Another SEO and I have bumping heads on moving a business. He told me @JoyHawkins told him they when a business moves from a SAB to physical location they need to contact support to have them update the address in the backend. I never saw this being needed to be done. I was told this only needed...

You won’t bypass the verification process if the name is in violation

Again, you are making assumptions that are not based on facts. How do you know an agency created these GBPs and not the businesses themselves? Do you know how many agencies or business owners I speak to who don't know any of Google's TOS? Yesterday, I read 25 things that can trigger a GBP...

To pass verification, the GBP needs to be Bright Care, which needs to be on the website and signage. Don't add the dentist's name.

The op asked about setting the order of all photos and not the primary one.

He wants to set up a practitioner GBP and not the main GBP.

I agree. That is why this works wonders for franchises. This also backfires with practitioner GBPs.

You would make the second GBP under the doctor’s name only. If you aren’t using a different primary, don’t create a secondary GBP. Only one will rank.

Here is a prime example of an unclaimed GBP without a website and phone number being listed. Google won't allow a GBP to remove both. Google created this GBP.

Blog posts over city pages? Some cities have low to no competition. You can create city pages and interlink them.