Recent content by Positiveim

and here is this fantastically useful response from Google support - go back into the loop!! Hi, Thank you for reaching out about your Business Profile. When we looked into your issue, we found that your profile is disabled. Profiles may be disabled if they don’t follow our guidelines. While...

We had a client appeal rejected so we updated the profile with what we think might be causing this issue. Both myself and the client have gone through the submit appeal process but we get to here and get stuck in a loop. No idea why it says Business Profile doesn't exist but if you click on it...

Just reporting this for the records. I have a client that has received new reviews over the last 10 days. Reviews are listed but the review count has dropped 3 times in 4 days. Total should be 46 but has now dropped to 34! Quite distressing for the client.

we gave up and created a new profile

Thanks @Stefan Somborac but I just end back where is started, There is no access restriction. I manage several locations for this business and several other GBPs with the same account and no other location has an issue.

Did you get anywhere with this? I have the same issue and it seems we are not alone with many posts online about it. No one on the GBP forum responds to queries about this issue.

I feel like a lot of these questions such as "do you think AI will ever replace x,y or z" are bit like asking someone in 1965 if we'll ever have hand held devices that can make video calls.

Not sure about the rest of the world but in the UK times are hard. Apparently 1M people have recently cancelled their broadband subscriptions. We are not in recessions but it feels like one. I have one client in particular - a decorator, that is seeing a sharp fall in demand. Unfortunately, he's...

have you tested this. seems like a very weird way of setting it up

Not sure if this means anyhting but I noticed that the notification has changed from disabled to "Verification Required" in the GBP dashboard. However, when I click on get verified it redirects to the main Google results page for the business name with the disabled dialogue.

ok, given everything that has been said, what would you do if it was your client? Tell them to start again and if so - what would be the correct approach? 1 of their locations is their registered/executive address.

Indeed. I wasn't venting on the fairness of it all just wondering whether these actions by Google were on the increase as violations are so widespread. I've been away from the industry for a period of time so catching up.

and for 2) will all other business that use virtual offices in this way (of which there are millions) start getting disabled? Almost any search I do shows violating businesses in the top 3. For example...

If you are referring to the Rentokil example then it looks like it is the home address of there technicians which means there won't be any signage and the address will need to change regularly with staff turnover. If you search Yell for rentokil in one of those metro areas, it's a home address...

So 1) how are a company like rentokil able to target every town without an address on maps or having offices with signage? - ,[55.8942583,-3.7709021]]']rentokil 2) will all other business that use virtual offices in this way (of which there are millions) start getting disabled? 3) can we...