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Thanks for the reality check. I didn't think there would be a silver bullet but at least I know I have done everything I could do with this.

@JoyHawkins @Colan Nielsen Any chance either of you wrote something about this topic? I went thru the blog https://www.sterlingsky.ca/blog/ and couldn't find anything so hopefully you may of written on another site about this. Thanks for any thoughts people have. I hate thinking that we...

There is a large mental health practice that spams the GBP name for better coverage on maps. The name should be "LifeStance Health" but they keyword stuff it to "LifeStance Therapists & Psychiatrists Chicago" for all their Chicago GBP listings. This causes problems for my client so I suggested...

Thanks for the reply! Concerning a DBA and Google GBP compliance, if you have to show your business incorporation docs does having DBA instead of an LLC pull up any red flags? Since GBP verification can be tricky even in the best circumstances I was a little worried that this could be an issue.

Is a DBA good enough when creating a new business for a GBP? The main company already has a LLC for there GBP. There are opening another line of business and will be dedicating an office of the floor for this new business. They will have a different phone number as well. I know that for tax...

Thanks for the reply @ElizabethRule I am still surprised and confused on how they could get more than one GBP using the same phone number? Do you tihnk this was more a Google bug vs some blackhat magic with the API?

@ElizabethRule Just created this post which shows a business and two employees having GBP with the same address. Didn't see your comment till just now but this shows it can be done, no clue how thought...

I came across three GBP that use the same address and phone number. One is the business and 2 are individual practitioners. I thought you couldn't create multiple GBP on the same address and phone number? I realize that you can have multiple businesses at the same address but can't understand...

Thanks for all the help!

Thanks @mattmcgee for chiming in! So is the only way around this to add your own GBP description before Google generates an AI description. Basically adding it as soon as you create a new GBP account? Adding this link below in case others want more detail...

Thank Jason for chiming in. Now I have to go back to my admin and see if what he told me about the Gen AI description changing was true. Just to confirm when the GBP Gen AI description is used by Google you are locked out of ever changing it to something else?

I am still hoping it is a bug because I just changed another GBP Gen AI description amd it starting showing the next day. Have you seen this @JoyHawkins

A GBP had a Gen AI description so I added our own updated the profile but after a week it hasn't updated. I went back into the GBP and the description we created still shows in the GBP back-end but not on the live listing. Am I missing a step or is this some kind of bug?

Thanks!

Doing some more research and found this: https://support.google.com/business/answer/4566671?hl=en Is the "Claim this business" on the GBP the part about requesting ownership?