Recent content by liorenda

Hey all. One of my clients has multiple locations in the same city, with unique city page for each location/listing. For SEO sake, we wish to set a rel=caonical tag so all city pages in the same city will point to one city page. The issue is that all other city pages will probably get unindexed...

Fraudulent Business Profiles in the Spotlight as Google Updates Verification Requirements and Trust Signals - BrightLocal So Google is supposedly rolling out an additional layer of verification. A few questions: Did you encounter this type of verification? Is it only for new listings, or old...

Thanks for answering! I'm seeing various posts in the GMB forum about changes in the verification process (plus complaints that the postcards don't arrive for many). What do you mean by escalation?

Thanks for the answer! All the locations are brick-and-mortar. We did not change any of them to SA. Any idea why this sudden change of verification policy?

Hello all, I have a client with a bulk account containing over 500 listings. Up until recently, we were able to create new listings without any sort of verification. Alas, now we're required to send a verification postcard to a newly created listing. Is this verification method going to be...

I'll take a wild guess and say that this is not in terms of Google's guidelines. Do you think this raises the chances of getting the listing suspended?

I know this is beyond any Google guideline imagined, but just out of curiosity: how the hell did this listing owner manage to stuff in graphical icons in the listing's name?

Hey, I noticed recently that the opening hours in GMB offer me to add other types of opening hours, such as online or drive-in hours. I entered online operating hours but didn't manage so far to see how it realizes in the listing (be it 3-pack or Maps). Any example of the visibility of these...

Hey, I've been trying to get the Place ID for my SAB using Place ID Finder, but nothing comes up. Is that because there are not IDs for SABs, or is there a way to retrieve them? Thanks, Lior

Hey guys and girls, I just downloaded the GMB insights for one of my clients, a brand with multiple locations, and saw in the CSV file a column which I never saw (or noticed) before: Overall Rating. The score seems to be between 0 and 5. Does anyone have some more specific info about this...

We didn't file for reinstatement yet. It was so surprising to see listings getting suspended even before the code was sent, that we wanted to see if anyone else encountered those harsh restrictions.

Those are walk-in businesses, and people are looking for a nearby location. It's also an industry with fierce local competition, so having a wide distribution of listings sure doesn't hurt.

Did it rise to the level where listings get suspended automatically, even before the code arrives? That's really harsh. Any thoughts on how to deal with it?

Hi there, One of our clients in California, which already has over 100 listings, is trying to add new ones to his GMB account. For some reason, every new listing that we add gets one of two things: it's either suspended immediately, or the Google postcards never arrive (we obviously sent more...

Actually, I was hoping you guys could tell me what this means before I press it, in case it's an unreversible thing (slight chances, I know, but it's still a new customer and I don't want to take any chances).