Local SEO / Google Business Profile

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How to Respond to Google Reviews: 30 Industry Examples

Thirty replies to positive, negative and disputed Google reviews for ten kinds of business, and the details a clinic, law firm or hotel must never confirm.

12 November 2026

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Local SEO / Google Business Profile

Google Business Home: What the Beta Does and Who Gets It

Google is testing Business Home, one AI dashboard for Business Profile, Ads, Merchant Center and YouTube. What it does, who qualifies, what to do in the EU.

3 November 2026

Local SEO / Google Business Profile

Google Business Profile Collected Info: What Delete Does

Google now shows what its automated calls and chats learned about a business. Who has the tab, what Delete does, and the GDPR questions it raises in the EU.

29 September 2026

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Local SEO / Google Business Profile

Local Consumer Review Survey 2026: What the Charts Show

A chart-by-chart reading of BrightLocal's 2026 review survey: the AI number is a net across six tools, and six figures disagree with the report's own prose.

9 September 2026

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Local SEO / Google Business Profile

Unwanted Google Review: What a Business Can Do

Whether a business can remove a Google review: the policy grounds, how to report, what the statuses mean, the one-time appeal and the routes that lead nowhere.

7 September 2026

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Local SEO / Google Business Profile

Running Google Reviews: Requests, Replies, Fixes

How to run Google reviews as a routine: who gets access, how to ask neutrally, how to reply, how suppliers fit in and how to turn complaints into service fixes.

7 September 2026

Local SEO / Google Business Profile

A Field-by-Field Check of Your Google Business Profile

Check name, categories, address, hours, description, attributes, links and photos in order, then keep a log of which edits Google actually published.

7 September 2026

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Local SEO / Google Business Profile

How Google Maps Ranks Local Businesses and How to Test It

Relevance, distance and prominence in plain terms, why a ranking checked from your own office misleads, and how to measure visibility apart from sales.

7 September 2026

Local SEO / Google Business Profile

How Google Business Profile Verification Works

The verification methods Google offers, what the video must show, how long review and mailed codes take, and what to do after a rejection.

7 September 2026

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Local SEO / Google Business Profile

How to Claim an Existing Business on Google Maps

A listing exists and you cannot manage it: which of three routes applies (claim, request access or recover your account) and what Google answers.

7 September 2026