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New Google Business Profile Mangers & Owners Must Wait 7 Days To Manager Profiles

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9 months ago

January 14, 2022

Google is putting new Google Business Profile owners and managers into a sandbox, penalty box or a waiting room for seven-days before they can manage all of the features in the Google Business Profile account. This is a new, I guess, security feature, Google added the other day.

Ben Fisher spotted this and notified me on Twitter:

News: Managers/Owners of a Google Business Profile must wait 7 days to make any changes. https://t.co/HY7HrUAryJ @rustybrick
— Ben Fisher (@TheSocialDude) January 12, 2022

Here is the new text in the help document on this:

Understand new owner & manager limitations

When a new owner or manager is added to an existing Business Profile, they must wait for 7 days before they can manage all the features of the profile. During this 7 day period, the new owner or manager gets an error if they try any of the following:

Delete or undelete a profile.

Remove other owners or managers from a profile.

Transfer primary ownership of a profile to themselves or a third user.

An existing owner or manager tries to transfer primary ownership of the profile to a new owner or manager still in their first 7 days.

If the new owner or manager deletes their account within the first 7 days, they’re removed from the profile. If they undelete their account, they must be added to the profile again.

So please plan for this and communicate this to clients when you give them access to their accounts. It may be frustrating to have to wait but I assume there is some sort of security reason this was added.

Forum discussion at Twitter & Local Search Forums.

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1 hour ago

October 4, 2022

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Google Gives Advice On When Copy Sites Outrank Your Original Content

Danny Sullivan from Google provided some advice and took some feedback on a specific example of when an original piece of research from a website was being outranked by a site copying its information.

This specific example is for the query [r kelly net worth] where the original source of the information supposedly comes from celebritynetworth.com but according to Celebrity Net Worth, the site ranking above them for that query is a “content regurgitators.” Celebrity Net Worth said the change happened with the September core update and they asked what can be done.

Here are those tweets:

@searchliaison We obviously don’t know all the mechanics of a core update, but it does seem that the Sept update shifted a bunch of content regurgitators to outrank CNW by simply writing summary articles of our original info. “r kelly net worth” is a good example.
— Celebrity Net Worth (@celebnetworth) October 3, 2022

Very hopeful this is a bug or if there’s something off with our site that we can address?
— Celebrity Net Worth (@celebnetworth) October 3, 2022

Danny Sullivan of Google replied giving a few bits of advice including (1) ask the sites taking your original research to cite and link to your content, (2) make it clear on your page that the original research is yours and yours alone, (3) ensure the details on the page show it is uniquely done, (4) and explain how you get to your original research. This is not to say that this site did anything wrong, Danny said he will pass along this information to the Google Search team.

Here are those tweets:

I think, and this is advice for anyone too, that if you generate unique figures, it might help to make it clear that the figures are from you and unique to you. For example, wow, negative two million! And I’m like where’s that coming from?….
— Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) October 4, 2022
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So maybe adding more to that type of box and elsewhere with advice on how to cite the figures, requesting that people consider linking to you as the source, might help. And for those you know probably know better, I’d reach out to them if you haven’t already.
— Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) October 4, 2022

Previously, Google has said that when scrapers outrank you, it might be due to quality issues with your site or your site was penalized. This is why you often see complaints about this after a core algorithm, which accesses site quality.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

Source: www.seroundtable.com