Recent content by Martin Briggs

I've been out of the loop. Thanks!

Thanks, Colan! Appreciate it! Is Twitter support still the best way to reach GBP support?

Hi everyone! I did my best to find the right solution beforehand but I couldn’t find an answer to this scenario, so apologies if I missed it. A doctor has… Practitioner listing 1 (address 1 - he’s no longer at this clinic) Practitioner listing 2 (address 2 - he’s no longer at this clinic)...

I'm seeing this too. Relieved to hear it's a bug!

Any idea roughly how many is too many?

I saw it at least a couple of months ago. In those instances, the feature it revealed was popular times. I can't seem to trigger it on the same few listings I did previously.

@SaraGarrison Nice spot! I'm seeing exactly the same. Must be an unintentional result of separating out the categories.

I got a pending "POI Establishment" as an additional category today for a dentist. Wasn't there some chatter about this at the end of last year? Is it a spam tactic or a bug?

True, but it wouldn't be the first time Google counts something that can be manipulated :)

I guess the counterargument is that it could provide an additional layer of certainty about the address? Then there are SABs - having photos geo-tagged at various spots around a city could help reinforce their service area. But yeah, I wouldn't think there can be much benefit.

Having URLs, emails or phone numbers in the reply can prevent them from showing up. If you have any of these, try removing them and see what happens.

Just to be clear, since John asked, you're talking about adding locations to the service area within GMB? If you enter all the variations you listed for Moonachie into Google Maps, the boundaries are identical for the first 2 and very similar for the 3rd. I'd go with what Matt said, I don't...

Just in case you didn't know, Marie was actually part of the Hangout where John stated this - in fact, it was her question. You can see the disavow discussion here.

I think other posters have done a great job at backing up what you already suspected - focus on Google. To add to Yan's point on getting citations indexed, Darren Shaw wrote a piece earlier this year about how to get encourage Google to find and index them (section titled "Get Your Citations...

Re: New Ownership: Joy Hawkins’ Company Sterling Sky, Inc. Has Acquired the Forum I don't post much but I've been lurking for a few years and this has always been a go-to place for great resources. It's always so positive and welcoming in here, and none more so than Linda - thanks and good...