Morticia
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This was in the recent PAII email:
Outdated information is a frustration for everyone, and now Google has announced their plan to follow up Google My Business users via email to confirm that they are still actively managing a business page when there has been 6 months of inactivity. Check out the link to Mike Blumenthal – a presenter at PAII’s 2015 Innkeeping Conference (“Understanding Google Places & Local Search) as he includes Google’s warning email text. This may help you separate a legitimate message from the tons of spam in your inbox! Full article: Google Says It May Unverify Inactive Local Business Listings.
Does this mean if you haven't touched your Google Local/Google Map/or whatever they're calling it this month that they'll consider your business as invalid? How many update the Google My Business page more than never?
I did it once to set it up years ago. Added some photos a few years back but I am completely unable to get rid of all the old photos so I don't even bother keeping photos up to date any longer. There's no sense adding all new room photos when they are bumped to the bottom of the list and are probably never seen.
Outdated information is a frustration for everyone, and now Google has announced their plan to follow up Google My Business users via email to confirm that they are still actively managing a business page when there has been 6 months of inactivity. Check out the link to Mike Blumenthal – a presenter at PAII’s 2015 Innkeeping Conference (“Understanding Google Places & Local Search) as he includes Google’s warning email text. This may help you separate a legitimate message from the tons of spam in your inbox! Full article: Google Says It May Unverify Inactive Local Business Listings.
Does this mean if you haven't touched your Google Local/Google Map/or whatever they're calling it this month that they'll consider your business as invalid? How many update the Google My Business page more than never?
I did it once to set it up years ago. Added some photos a few years back but I am completely unable to get rid of all the old photos so I don't even bother keeping photos up to date any longer. There's no sense adding all new room photos when they are bumped to the bottom of the list and are probably never seen.