Tag: Edits

Fresh Edits: a Hidden Advantage in Google Maps Spam-Reporting

28Aug

By PhilNo Comments

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Fresh Edits: a Hidden Advantage in Google Maps Spam-Reporting

Like my post? Please share! When you’re trying to clean up a competitor’s dirty Google Business Profile page, it’s not enough just to be right: You also need to make your move at the right time. When’s the right time to send in a “suggest an edit”? It’s (1) as soon as you notice a problem, (2) as soon as you know specifically what change(s) you’ll suggest to Google, and (3) after you’ve had a long pause from reporting other Google Maps spam. The first point is intuitive enough. Don’t wait until a competitor is outranking you to send in your edit. Report Google Maps spam that you outrank by a country mile. Today it ranks #14 in the 3-pack, but tomorrow you may be stuck under its kilt, with nowhere to look but up. The second point might also be intuitive. If you can tell Google exactly ...

Google Starts Cheering Anti-Spam Edits in Google Maps

15Jul

By PhilNo Comments

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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...