Post by account_disabled on Feb 22, 2024 5:01:11 GMT -5
The acceptable. Servicearea businessesbusinesses that serve customers at their locationsshould have one page for the central office or location and designate a service area from that point. All of this adds up to Google saying you shouldnt create a listing for anything other than a realworld location but its extremely common to see a spammers simply creating tons of listings for nonexistent locations b people of good will not knowing the guidelines and doing the same thing and c service area businesses SABs feeling they have to create fakelocation listings because Google wont rank them for their service cities otherwise.
In all three scenarios the brand puts itself at risk for detection and America Mobile Number List listing removal. Google can catch them competitors and consumers can catch them and marketers can catch them. Once caught any effort that was put into ranking and building reputation around a fakelocation listing is wasted. Better to have devoted resources to riskfree marketing efforts that will add up to something real. What to do about it Advise the SAB owner to selfreport the problem to Google. I know this sounds risky but Google My Business forum Top Contributor Joy Hawkins let me know that shes never seen a case in which Google has punished a business that selfreported accidental spam.
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owner will likely need to unverify the spam listings see how to do that here and then Google will likely remove the ineligible listings leaving only the eligible ones intact. What about dyedinthewool spammers who know the guidelines and are violating them regardless turning local pack results into useless junk Get to the spam listing in Google Maps click the Suggest an edit link toggle the toggle to Yes and choose the radio button for spam. Google may or may not act on your suggestion. If not and the spam is misleading to consumers I think its always a good idea to report it to the Google My Business forum in hopes that.
In all three scenarios the brand puts itself at risk for detection and America Mobile Number List listing removal. Google can catch them competitors and consumers can catch them and marketers can catch them. Once caught any effort that was put into ranking and building reputation around a fakelocation listing is wasted. Better to have devoted resources to riskfree marketing efforts that will add up to something real. What to do about it Advise the SAB owner to selfreport the problem to Google. I know this sounds risky but Google My Business forum Top Contributor Joy Hawkins let me know that shes never seen a case in which Google has punished a business that selfreported accidental spam.
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owner will likely need to unverify the spam listings see how to do that here and then Google will likely remove the ineligible listings leaving only the eligible ones intact. What about dyedinthewool spammers who know the guidelines and are violating them regardless turning local pack results into useless junk Get to the spam listing in Google Maps click the Suggest an edit link toggle the toggle to Yes and choose the radio button for spam. Google may or may not act on your suggestion. If not and the spam is misleading to consumers I think its always a good idea to report it to the Google My Business forum in hopes that.