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Google Starts Cheering Anti-Spam Edits in Google Maps
Like my post? Please share!Just about every day I send in edits on Google My Business pages that have committed one party foul or another, but this is the first I’ve seen Google go out of its way to encourage those edits:
It was a partial edit of a business’s name, in which I removed a single stuffed-in keyword. I find two things interesting, at least in this case. The first is that I made that edit back in 2018. The second is that that edit has stuck for almost 3 years, even though it would have been easy for the business to add back in the keyword. Often when you make a Google Maps edit on the name of GMB page and Google agrees with your edit and makes the change, the business just changes the name back to whatever it was, and Google doesn’t do anything about it. Often it becomes a...