PlePer - is anyone here using it?

[Tim Colling]

Is anyone here using PlePer for GMB listing monitoring? If so, how do you like it?

If not, what alternate tool(s) do you use for this purpose?

 

[shripadd]

Hi Tim,
Using new GMB API a user can monitor his/her GMB listing in better manner, API send pub/sub notification as well as changes happened to the GMB listing.
https://developers.google.com/my-business/content/change-log#v44

 

[whitespark]

Hi Tim,

What do you mean by GMB monitoring? What feature are you looking for?

 

[Tim Colling]

Hi Tim,

What do you mean by GMB monitoring? What feature are you looking for?

Here's at least part of what I was thinking of:
1) Noticing changes made by Google or others and "reverting" them back to pre-change settings
2) Noticing and alerting for new Questions and Answers
3) Noticing and alerting for new photos and videos posted by others

 

[whitespark]

Noted. Thank you, Tim. We'll have something for you soon.

 

[Tim Colling]

Noted. Thank you, Tim. We'll have something for you soon.

Oh Darren, you're such a tease!

 

[JoyHawkins]

We were using it for a while but found the updates were inconsistent and stopped. I have heard the GMB API can be unstable so it could be possible that is the issue (not really sure).

 

[Tim Colling]

Thanks to everyone for your thoughtful and thorough replies. I appreciate your help!

 

[Henry LocalClarity]

We used the pub/sub notices for clients as well, but the lack of consistency (as Joy points out) was just too great to be considered a reliable solution. We had to create GMB detail crawler that checks the content every week and then reports on any deltas. It was the only way to be certain of catching changes.