Two business owners both tell you Google suspended them. The first can still see her listing when she searches, she just cannot change anything on it. The second has vanished from Maps completely and his phone has stopped ringing. The…
You run a cleaning company. Nobody has ever visited your office, and nobody ever will, because the work happens in the customer’s villa. So when you set up your Google Business Profile and it asked for an address, you entered…
Most Google Business Profile problems are not caused by anything the owner did later. They are caused by decisions made in the first ten minutes of setup, then discovered months afterwards when the listing gets suspended or quietly fails to…
You searched for your own business and found a second listing. Old address, a phone number you stopped using in 2022, and 34 reviews you had no idea existed. The instinct is to delete it and be done. That instinct…
“The brokerage already has a Google listing, so I don’t need one.” That belief costs Dubai agents more enquiries than almost anything else, and it rests on a misunderstanding of what the brokerage profile actually does. It ranks the brokerage.…
You opened a second branch, so you created a second Google Business Profile. Then a third. Now you are logging in and out of separate accounts, the Deira listing still shows last year’s Ramadan hours, and nobody is quite sure…
There is one question during Google Business Profile setup that decides more about your profile’s survival than anything else you fill in. “Do customers visit your business address?” Most owners answer it in about two seconds, pick whichever sounds more…
You verified your Google Business Profile. A few weeks later Google asked you to verify it again. You did. Then it asked again. Now you are staring at a message with no obvious way past it: “No more ways to…
The email arrives and says your appeal has been denied. No reason. No explanation. No suggestion of what to do next. For most business owners that is where it ends. They assume a human reviewed the case, decided against them,…
Client: “We’re a free zone company. Our address is technically a flexi-desk. Can we even use Google Business Profile?” Here’s the honest answer most agencies won’t give you upfront: probably not, the way you’re picturing it. Virtual and unstaffed flexi-desk…