Adding Secondary Categories/Re-Verification

[sarmcl]

Alot of discussion about having additional categories on your GBP to help ranking but be WARNED, if you do this you run into issues of getting your listing knocked out of verification. Just happened to me and a peer at another agency.

This is so frustrating. Why would adding relevant additional categories do this? SMH

 

[keyserholiday]

Were any other changes made at the same time? I hope this not happening again.

 

[sarmcl]

Were any other changes made at the same time? I hope this not happening again.

Nope. Nothing. Ugh I’m so frustrated.

 

[JS Girard]

This seems to be in line with the current ongoing reports of a suspension Uptick (as recently written by Barry over at SERoundtable). That is, that uptick probably reflects another uptick in sensitivity to edits.