How do i do this hiding the address that is?
Golden Boy
Ok Fookhole. Have no clue about this shit. Fred C use to help me this stuff but now he is too busy taking care of my Dad to worry about BD's.
Golden Boy
NO email you tard... When they call you Wednesday just say "YES"..
We get 2 -3 calls a day from someone claiming to be Google wanting to update our listing...seems like each time it is a new number on the caller ID...and the automated calls drive me crazy.
didnt work....i said YES, and it was still gone.....
me thinks they plug the addy in, and then if you are in the middle of a neighborhood.....GONE
how long did your total turn around take? i'm guessing you wrote the local help email?
i'm in the same boat and for the same reasons. what i do not understand about google is why they are calling when it's fairly well known that "hi this is google" is a popular scam solicit. had they just sent an email saying what the changes were and what to update or risk being deleted they would of had a MUCH better success rate and one hell of a lot fewer issues.
in most services businesses the phone only rings for 2 reasons, customers and solicitors.
mine was yanked on dec 7th, sent them an email. two weeks later got a reply saying it would be re que'd...still waiting for it to come back to life
Thanks for the thread on this. I didn't have any issues w/ my listing, but I did remove the address as you guys mentioned.
I've recently moved to another city about 30 mins away from my current location on my Places account. I wanted to change the listing to the current address but I was not sure if it was going to affect my ranking as I now show #1 or so on my current google places, I didn't want to have the risk of dissapearing off page 1 if I updated to my current city.
Thanks,
Bill
Any suggestions?
check the google help forum. i think but am not positive that you're suppose to close your old location and then open a new one when you move locations
I'll admit he got me to. I have no excuse I read about it on this board at least a week or two ago and just kept putting it off until it caught up to me.
I went and switched it right after I hung up but it didn't help. I have a support ticket with them and hope they fix it soon but the good news is for me at least this is about the best time it could possibly happen.
I just hope I get most of my reviews back. I had 17 and the next closest only has 2 or 3.
Oh and before I had the b or c spot on places and that was it. Now my website shows up in the spot right below the places I'm also hoping that may slightly blunt the impact.
PS. This dude never identified himself as being from Google. He just asked if I did business in Panama City and if customers came to my location, which I answered yes but evidently it doesn't matter what you say.
Don't plan on the reviews coming back. Google doesn't have a good track record of bringing them back. I hope you had enough forethought to keep your own copy of your reviews. So you can at least use then for other marketing. Lesson for ALL keep a copy of your online reviews.Same thing happened to me. I went from C on google places to the first second or third organic listing. They've told me that my problem has been fixed, but I am now waiting for review to be put back on.