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Have you ever had a listing that actually went live after weeks processing or it just gets stuck? Seems like my only recourse is just follow up with another email that will probably get the same copy and paste reply.

Had a legit listing suspended. Submitted info it was lifted in 2 days, ok great. Now it is stuck in “processing”. I replied to the email 5 days later asking for help. They copy and pasted the same reinstatement email. Anyone else dealing with this?

Great, thanks for the response.

Anyone know what the current support wait time is on reinstatement requests? It was a nightmare getting a response 3 months ago but I have had some prompt responses on other support issues but I just had to put a fresh reinstatement request in and am wondering if its gotten any better recently.

@JoyHawkins appreciate the reply. Since you have a direct line of communication with them is this something that can be brought to their attention. We had an account review 3 months ago where they said you have 2 weeks to submit documentation. That was great, why not do that for everything or...

Just venting a little bit here. This year it seems like Google has tried to crack down on fake listings which is a positive thing but a repurcussion of this has been the suspension of legitimate businesses. This policy of suspending without warning, guilty until proven innocent and not having...

Yea that was my thinking as well but now I am dealing with a suspended listing and not really sure what the move is here. You use to be able to reverify an address when suspended (still need reinstatement) but now it doesn’t send a postcard. It seems like this reinstatement request is just stuck...

With SABs having addresses cleared out, if the listing is verified but the owner changes central locations should you attempt to reverify at the new address or just leave it?

Has anyone had any success with getting fake reviews taken down with the report a problem flag next to review on Google listings? If so which option did you choose, how long did it take, etc. Appreciate any help.

I just came on here to post that I am seeing no more stars for Yelp for the most part in the serps. I have been waiting for this day for a long time really hope it sticks I hate Yelp!

As many of you know the test for Home Service Ads in San Francisco Plumbers / Locksmiths has been live for about 3 months now. I've been observing and one thing that I was most curious on is how would this effect reviews for those companies. I figured if you have to "hire" a company customers...

Definitely different ways to skin a cat Eric. I have seen the same thing when aggressively targeting multiple keywords with one page, headings and tagging pics with secondary keywords, etc = poor rankings. Seems like when you give G information overload on what to rank it ranks nothing or at...

Here are my thoughts. If you are creating citations and building other links it will likely be towards the /city-st/ and for that reason I like to use this page for my main keyword and then make a decision on whether or not to silo based on the competition and niche. For the example I used...

Is this theory or have you tested both ways? I have my thoughts but would like to see if anyone else has experience.

Petco is a bad example. They target pet supplies over grooming.