Recent content by Mary Bowling

I'd correct everything and request re-verification, if needed. Then, if suspended, I'd tell Google the truth - that he screwed up and you're helping him fix it.

Google does not require someone to be a customer to review you. All they have to do is have some interaction with the business and Google calls it good. You could call them and get a busy signal, walk by their storefront or even drive behind their vehicle. Heck, not too long ago, some of us were...

Carrie Hill and I ran our business strictly through PayPal. We were happy to pay PayPal's percentage to avoid all the other BS. Everyone has a major credit card they can use with PayPal. The few times we agreed to some other arrangement, we regretted it. I'd add a PITA (pain in the a$$) fee for...

I have experience with multi-location businesses. Ranking is not that much of an issue in many cases because of the domain authority of the parent website of a big brand. However, a lot of them get it wrong on their store locators a with a severe lack of crawlability, poor structure, duplicate...

Lynda, IMO, no. 1. they attracted way too much spam 2.AdWords Express (the main profit center for Google in Local right now) is totally organized around categories and it's hard to imagine how it could work well with custom categories 3. Google probably has other things in the works that will...

I have no explanation. It sounds to me as if you may just be in one of those limbos where some of your stuff might be ruled by the new system and some by the old system. Perhaps Google is no longer accepting feeds using the old categories in preparation for the transition to new categories. I'd...

Re: What did google just do to accessing all your information for a business acct? H There is weird stuff going on, for sure. In the past 2 days I have tired to access several verified places listings but could not find them anywhere in the new dashboard when I logged in. In one case, someone...