Recent content by sharifawan

I wouldnt buy links or run an indexer on those yet. Google crawled them and chose to drop them, so forcing them back in probably doesn't change what it saw. First thing I'd check is what the dropped pages have in common. Same template, same intro, the ones you edited least from the AI draft...

The small edit thing is what I keep hearing too. Hours, a category, a new phone number, and then its gone. Support never seems to say which one did it. Have you had one come back after an appeal? Did you change anything on the listing first or appeal it as it was?

When a client moves, my order is GBP first, then the site (footer, contact page, schema), then the bigger directories, then the long tail. Not sure thats right though. Updating GBP first means for a while the site still shows the old address. The bit that drags on is the old listings. Some...

We still build links to info pages, just fewer of them. If a guide sends people on to a service page, it gets links. If it only answers the question the AI box already answers, it doesn't. Whether links decide which pages get cited, nobody outside Google really knows. I'd check who's cited for...

Yes, you can order for several clients or locations at once. The easiest way is to email us a text file with the order details for each location. You can then pay the total directly to our PayPal. It also saves you from filling out the order form once for every location.

The tricky thing with the boring fixes is knowing which one actually did it, since they usually go in around the same time. When you saw a jump, could you ever pin it on one change, or was it more the whole batch?

Local listings have a smaller version of the same problem: last year's hours or an old phone number can stay up on directories after the business changes them. Did the article say how long the old product images took to drop out once the source was fixed?

That jump lands right in the middle of the spam update rollout, so it could be a test as much as a new normal. If it sticks, a branded search becomes the place people read a summary of you before they ever click. Did their data show it holding past the 29th?

If a client recently changed their phone number, keep the old line forwarding until the cleanup is done. Calls from listings that nobody has fixed yet still reach them that way.

Mike, thank you for your order. We've already added it to the queue.

The only removal that really sticks is Trustpilot's own: you flag a review that breaks their guidelines and they decide. Plenty of the paid services just press that same flag button for you, and the ones promising more can end up getting a warning put on your profile. Is the review you want...

On the 301 point above: a section of a page isn't its own URL, so there's nothing to redirect when you split. The old page stays live with whatever's left on it, which means you can move out just the one search that's pulling away and leave the rest alone. Which of the three or four feels most...

One thing worth adding to the list is what those answers actually say about you. They can show hours or a phone number right in the answer, and if those are out of date the customer acts on them without ever reaching your site. Are you checking what gets shown, or just whether you're mentioned?

Hard to test photos on their own since so much else on a profile moves at the same time. Old ones are what I'd worry about more, a storefront shot from before a remodel has people looking for a building that doesn't look like that anymore. Are you testing new uploads, or swapping out old ones?

A lot of the suspension threads here start with something that really was wrong with the listing. I'm more curious about the other kind, where the profile looked fine and got suspended anyway. Was it right after a small edit, like new hours or a category change, or had nothing changed at all...