🚨 New GBP Email Notification 📢 Keep your Google Business Profile trustworthy & reliable! ✅ Keep info accurate & up-to-date ✅ Welcome genuine customer feedback ✅ Avoid fake reviews & incentives Violating policies can lead to profile restrictions.

Why should Google be avoided for business critical solutions?

Wondering why your LSA lead phone numbers are suddenly blocked out? You’re not alone! Google is doing it to experiment and track how often users click to access the potential customer’s phone number to get more insight into how many leads are used by providers. What do you think about this change?

Google adds FAQs on site reputation abuse policy searchengineland.com/google-adds-...

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Check out @nearmedia.bsky.social newest podcast @gsterling.bsky.social & I discuss -Google's relaxed stance on GBP business names [email protected] research on 300M queries - How Businesses must adapt to dynamics by balancing SEO, branding, & new tools. www.nearmedia.co/ep-185-gbps-...

For the past 2 years the most common issue in the GBP forums has been suspensions We track the ups & downs over the past 1.5 yrs to understand the what, why & impact of Google shifting the burden of customer suspension costs to business owners, volunteers & public www.nearmedia.co/waves-of-gbp...

Woo hoo! ☕♟️ Coffee & Chess kind of Sunday morning.

support.google.com/maps/contact... This new form is interesting. I’m curious to see what happens when a business is reported for having pressured a customer to leave a review.

A significant change to Google's Business Profile Guidelines! Businesses selling products/services with minimum age requirements (e.g. alcohol, cannabis) MUST have a storefront. No more restricted product SABs. 1/3

Agreed!! I admire the brilliance that is put together in these campaigns and the landing page setups too!!

“LSA are taking up more space at the top of the serps AND in the Local Pack.”

@nearmedia.bsky.social podcast 184: GBP suspension woes and support #fails; Siri building search-like experience; Google antitrust, ChatGPT market share and the fragmentation of search.

Friendly Reminder: Today’s Nov 21st. Check your LSA/GBP connection.

Has anyone else noticed that LSA now lacks the green checkmark? 🤔 Also, the ProList has shifted from saying ‘Google Guaranteed’ to just ‘Sponsor.’ Is this a sign of changes? Curious to hear your thoughts!

The Google Analytics GA4 data issue is now fixed - according to Google - story updated at www.seroundtable.com/google-analy...

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Brilliant!

Have a problem with your Google Business Profile? Here is a starter pack list of Google Product Experts that solve the problem go.bsky.app/MYVdKBD

This is so cool!