Temporary GMB Closures

[MattF]

Hello,

I own a gym which is under government shutdown Due to Covid-19. I received an email from Google saying my GMB listing has been temporarily closed which I understand is the norm at the moment. Upon receiving this email from Google my local GMB rankings also slipped a lot. I read on Search Engine Land that Google isn’t demoting local rankings due to these automated temporary closures however I have definitely seen this to not be the case as mentioned above.
the business listing is Plus Fitness Morayfield. If I can get some help here would be great.

 

[keyserholiday]

I have not seen any cases where rankings have dropped because of Google marking a listing as temporarily closed. Google initially demoted rankings for temporarily closed business and reversed that decision. Google has had some significant algorithms impacting rankings the past 2 months. Brightlocal just noted s big shake up last Friday April 24th. When did your rankings drop?

 

[MattF]

I received an email from GMB support confirming my business had been temporarily closed. The same day my visibility dropped around 7 places. Seems strange this happened the same day I received Google's email.

 

[keyserholiday]

What day was that?

 

[MattF]

It was the 23/04/2020
Thank you.

 

[keyserholiday]

That is the same day that Google have a major algorithmic update in the maps according to Brightlocal. This update was for two full days.

 

[keyserholiday]

Please check out and follow this thread as other users have been discussing several major drops this month.