Recent content by Pete

I'm still seeing the ups store, virtual office address and fake 24 hour gbm listings from national competitors dominate our top spots on local.

We just dropped out again too!

Our positions on gmb were restored about 2 hours ago.

After making a recover, we lost our positions on May 4 and are completely out of the pack. It is now May 8.

Same here. Actually improved for certain keywords. It's really nice that they waited until the weekend to run their test.

It doesn't look like you do many posts.

Rankflux shows higher than normal movement today.

We still have a couple #1 places in Organic too, but we completely fell out of the pick3 and way down the list.

Hi Joy - 24 Hour Translation Services KW = Houston Translation Services Address: 2020 Montrose Blvd #300, Houston, TX 77006 We only have one covid19 post. and have nearly 100 more reviews than our closest competitor. We held a 3-Pack position for close to 2 years. We also purchase Google...

They're Baaaack! Just in time for Halloween and like an old poltergeist, the sites that I spent countless hours reporting to have removed have all come back. They are all employing the same strategy of using virtual office spaces. Customers who call them report being lied to about where they...

I have a competitor who has recently experienced a huge uptick in reviews. One thing I have noticed is that they tend to get a 5-star review from a relatively new reviewer, but over the course of a day the number of reviews made by that reviewer climbs. Today, one of their reviewers spent...

Here are a couple edits that were made within hours. I do have more examples. 1. Reported and deleted, non-advertiser Success Your edit to ---- ------------ has been published. See your change. Note that some changes might take up to 24 hours before appearing on Google. Thank you...

I've edited some of the wording that I used and apologize for any problems. While, the wording I used has been softened, The Wall Street Journal ran the following article: Millions of Business Listings on Google Maps Are Fake—and Google Profits Google Maps is filled with false business...

This isn't happening in a vacuum and I'm not the only one seeing this. Some of the larger SEO companies must be seeing the same thing in various niches and at the very minimum getting very suspicious. Since the redressal form went live, we've seen an increase in new spam listings. Some of...

I've done all of that and the first time I reported this business and their other similar locations was back in April. I have been able to get some listings removed, but they weren't serious businesses and never a competitive threat. The listings that get removed tend to be those in houses or...