Google Sending Reviews Even With 100+ Locations

[Cordell Crowley]

Hey all,

Just thought this was interesting. Seems like Google is now sending the "you've got a new review" emails out for agency accounts regardless of how many locations they manage. Before, there was the limit of 100+ locations where Google would stop sending these if you were over the limit, which is what led to guides such as this: https://www.sterlingsky.ca/how-to-g...-manage-over-100-google-my-business-listings/

My team has been starting to get reviews for all locations for, to my knowledge, the first time since Google rolled the agency dashboard out in Summer 2018. Just thought it was interesting, and I hadn't seen any other info online about this when I did a quick couple of Google searches earlier.

Doesn't really change anything but may make it easier to organize larger accounts in the future?

 

[JS Girard]

I noticed that too, and it's really problematic for us because we have over 1400 GBPs in the damn thing, a number that we expect to rise to 2k by the time we're done repatriating GBPs currently scattered amongst separate accounts (we're not sure how high exactly because many GBPs are in multiple accounts).

 

[fisicx]

You can always turn them off:

https://support.google.com/business/answer/7198436?hl=en

 

[Cordell Crowley]

@JS Girard I feel that, our inbox has been getting spammed. It's not the biggest issue in the world since we can work around it, but still weird that Google shadow-updated their review notification system like that.

I'm aware we can turn notifications off, but we had our agency dashboard set up to specifically receive email notifications for some clients and not others by manipulating the previous 100+ limit for notifications, and I don't want to turn it off for everyone. I figure turning it off at the User Group level should fix it for the ones we don't want to be spammed with. But again, mostly just interesting that they updated it out of nowhere after 7+ years like that.