Crystal Horton

Ooo - Excellent point! I wonder.

🚨 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?

Hi. Yes, you'll need to wait for 30 days until the suspension is lifted. It may take up to three weeks after the suspension is lifted to start seeing the profile appear on the prolist again.

Agreed. Me either!!

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 Google added several frequently asked questions around the site reputation abuse policy.

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Ep 185: GBP’s Biz Name Shift, Fishkin’s Search Query Insights, & AI's Growing Role in Challenging Google Google's relaxed stance on extended descriptors in business names aids SEO visibility but carries risks. Research from 300M queries shows branded searches dominate. AI tools like ChatGPT gain ground, ...

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Waves of GBP Suspensions Reflect Google Support Failures Google has shifted the burden of customer support costs to business owners, volunteers and the public.

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

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So awesome!! We have a similar tradition!! 🌲 We drive to the mountains (with our tree permit) and hike for the grandest tree we can find :)

Like a good kind of no words?

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

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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.

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

I agree. I also think that an SEO expert understands keywords. Where a website ranks well organically and what keywords are challenging. So there’s not much of a waste in ad spend with an optimized campaign.

A Google ad campaign actually enhances SEO. I’ve seen the data and it’s super cool! I do think long tail keywords will play more of a role in organic that ads hasn’t reached yet.

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

Ep 184: GBP Suspension Woes & Support #fails, Siri Sherlocking Search, the Fragmentation of Search How listing suspensions reflect the failures of GBP, Siri seems poised to sherlock search as search is fragmenting across the ecosystem

@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.

Ha! Seems to be the approach these days.

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!

Noah is awesome!!!

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Winning! 🤪

How on earth do I follow all of these amazing groups? So cool!

Woo hoo!