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I am an electrical contractor and I have had a website up for over a decade. The website consists of a few heading pages: homepage, about us, service area, services, pricing, contact. Then I have 10 pages focused on different services that my company performs, then an additional 22 landing...

From my understanding, Google doesn’t really do much about name changing. There are business profiles who have been adding long lines of spammy keywords to their business name for years. Every time I suggest an edit it immediately gets changed back, but then they will change it to add the...

Thanks! I know that Google is much stricter now on verification. I was wondering if there’s something we could do to signal to Google that they need to re-verify a listing? For example, there are still listings put up by referral companies for completely fake companies that don’t exist at...

You’re saying that services have no effect on ranking whatsoever even when someone is searching for something specific? Even if Google is recommending those services?

I have an electrical contracting company and Google keeps suggesting services that my company does not perform. Sometimes I remember to go in there every week and not approve them. Other times I forget and then I have to go in and delete them after they were automatically approved. Now I’m...

Just as an update, since I made this thread and Apple removed my listing from Apple Maps, I switched my Google business profile to show my address and I also submitted a new request to put my business on Apple Maps with my address showing, but Apple still won’t do it. I don’t know understand...

Hey guys, a few years ago I started “spam fighting“ as I read that phrase coined here. I used the redressal form to submit spreadsheets of spam and scam referral companies who made fake Google profile listings. I also had many profiles taken down when they were duplicates for the same company...

Search for the company name on Google while logged into an account that administrates the profile and the options should be at the top. I don’t know why they got rid of the Google Business Profile backend.

At least once a week I have to go into my GBP settings and remove services that I absolutely do not offer. Air Conditioning, Water Heaters, Free Estimates, Free Consultations (those last 2 are very bad since it is false advertising) etc. If I don't go in and change them when they are suggested...

Report it via the redressal form. You’ll be able to state your whole case and provide evidence. Read up on this forum for discussions about the redressal form and spam fighting.

Suggest an edit and choose duplicate place. If that doesn’t work then use the redressal form and include all of your proof.

I have over 100 reviews and the 5.0 rating. I am far ahead of most other Electrician other than a couple of real big franchise companies. It’s very common for a new customer to call and say something like “I saw all your great reviews“ so apparently I have enough to make prospective customers...

I’m wondering how this is nowadays as well. I remember years ago it was said that keywords in reviews helped but then it seemed like people started saying that not only do keywords not help, but even getting lots of reviews didn’t help with SEO either.

Around six years ago I hired an SEO person to redo my website for my service area business, as part of that they made a bunch of town-based landing pages. To go along with those landing pages they made a bunch of different YouTube videos which were cheaply made and just used pictures from my...

Some people might not want to openly say this, but it seems like the consensus is that your client will get better rankings if he chooses to show his address on Google. While it’s against their guidelines, Google almost never does anything about it even when the business is reported via the...