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Has anyone got to know what exactly happening with this update, I am seeing giant shifts on many of my sites.

Major local listing update rolling out since the start of Nov19 - Google My Business Local Listing Update This Week. Ranking fluctuations in few campaigns, but some are intact, not able to figure out any pattern. Has anyone able to figure out what exactly is causing these fluctuations?

I concur with Suresh on this, the best way would be to have a separate GMB for your SEO/Webdesign business. It is always good to have just one GMB for different services, however only if different services comes under same category so for any PC hardware related services like PC repair, PC...

I think with this update, a lot of 3rd party review websites will get some attention they were looking for.

Backlinks to GMB can indirectly benefit, with referral traffic to these GMB pages Google will find them more popular then other listings and improve rankings.

Are you looking to rank for Geneva in USA or keyword "Geneva" in Switzerland?

Same description is fine, but I would recommend different Names and maintain separate NAP consistency for different GMB pages

Hi, the only way to remove a bad review is to flag it inappropriate or contact the person to remove it down. Most of the time people review a business with a fake name (especially if they are current employees).

Yes, they might be using Yext for listing management. But they have their their own web crawler (a pretty good one), so they surely be able to scan the NAP consistencies by themselves. And for several instances I have seen their NAP scores different from Yext.

Even if it does impact the rankings, it would be negligible.

You can try SEMRush new local listing management tool. Application | SEMrush

you can try flagging that review as spam by multiple accounts of your employees, friends etc. If sufficient users have marked any review on GMB as spam, it should be removed. Flagging inappropriate reviews - Google My Business Help