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
- Google has made it easier to report businesses for pressuring or incentivizing customer reviews.
- Google clarifies requirements for labeling your GBP as open 24/7 when using AI agents.
- Google rolls out preferred source labels in AI mode.
- Google adds AI performance reports in Search Console.
- GBP now has view counts for photos and videos.
- What should I do if I’ve tried all the steps to move SAB locations on my GBP but it still won’t let me?
- If having two SAB locations close together risks a suspension of my GBP, how far away do they need to be to avoid triggering suspension?
- Should I try to reclaim profiles for a car dealership that were attempted to be deleted but are still showing up in search results?
- Does manipulating urls on Google Maps help with local ranking?
