Each week, Greg and Ben answer your questions on digital marketing for local businesses … local search engine optimization (SEO), Google Business Profile, social media, email marketing, websites, online advertising and more.
This Week’s Updates and Questions
- Missing reviews survey.
- Product post bug.
- Justifications are showing up on Google Maps.
- WhiteSpark developes duplicate finder.
- What more can I do besides optimizing websites and getting good reviews to become more successful?
- Is it possible to get a listing to rank in multiple categories?
- Should I set up a new GBP for a new service I’m adding to my business?
- Has there been an increase in GBP suspensions recently?
- Is it possible to merge a business listing and a practitioner listing?
- Should I have a separate practitioner listing in addition to an office listing?
- Can you run a plumbing business out of your home and show the address or does not showing the address make a difference in ranking?
- Can I have multiple GBP listings at different locations with only one website?
- Is there a legitimate way to suspend my own GBP profile so it no longer displays anywhere?
- How do I rank in nearby cities in addition to the city in which the business is located?
- Is there any way to find out what the address is on a SAB when I control the GBP?
- Should I have my business name followed by my personal name on GBP when I go by my personal name on LinkedIn?
- If I have a template website do I need a different one for SEO?
- Would Google allow Real Estate Brokers to own the GBP of their agents?
- Should I use a tracking number for a location with two businesses and only one phone number?
- At an address with lots of businesses with the same category, should I switch to a home address and SAB?
- What should I do if I don’t get confirmation emails of redressal forms when reporting a spam listing?
- How do I delete departments in GBP if I have no access?
- When updating my listings and key citations after moving locations from a local agency, should I use my home address?
- What are the effects if the business changed its name but everything else remains the same?
- If a practitioner has a GBP and the practice/business also has a GBP, where would you suggest users place their reviews?
- What should I do if GBP keeps directing me to claim a duplicate one?
- What should I do if my business doesn’t show up when searching the business name, but does with a generic one?
- What should I focus on in my homepage when I have several categories I can rank for?
- Does a permanently closed business eventually disappear from the listings?