{"id":813,"date":"2018-10-09T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seosolutions.us\/blog\/?p=813"},"modified":"2018-10-10T20:33:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T20:33:41","slug":"gentle-reminder-you-dont-own-your-google-my-business-listing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/gentle-reminder-you-dont-own-your-google-my-business-listing\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gentle Reminder That You Don’t Own Your Google My Business Listing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The main aim of having and maintaining your Google My Business listing is to spread awareness about your business. But in case you forget to fill the Service area then you will face something that\u2019s rather strange.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Many users have reported that, when they forgot to fill the service area, a third party lead generation company\u2019s link called \u201csingleplatform.com\u201d appeared in front of the service section.<\/p>\n

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\nUpon clicking on the link, it takes you to a page that is dedicated to the business. And the weirdest part is, it doesn\u2019t open in a new window, but rather navigate you out of Google.<\/p>\n

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Sometimes it shows \u201cGet a Quote\u201d option, not from the business that you have searched for, but from the businesses that have paid on singleplatform.com to get listed.<\/p>\n

When you click on the \u201cClaim this Menu\u201d, it will show you a service cost that ranges from $99 to $149 a month. Although we didn\u2019t investigate further, Google forcing business owners to opt for a paid option is a wakeup call for those who think that they \u201cOWN\u201d their Google My Business listing.<\/p>\n

Although the above encounters were mostly from the home service industry & were limited to the cities which have Google local services active.<\/p>\n

The only way we can see to protect yourself from this is to fill out your services menu within Google My Business. We recommend you do this regardless of your industry. Just because Google is focused on the home services industry doesn’t mean they won’t turn to your industry next.<\/p>\n

For more in-depth insights into the most vital features of Google My Business, Download The SEO Solutions 2018 Guide to Google My Business<\/a> to learn more!<\/span><\/h4>\n

Sign up for The SEO Solutions\u00a0Newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to read up on all the latest updates!<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The main aim of having and maintaining your Google My Business listing is to spread awareness about your business. But in case you forget to fill the Service area then you will face something that\u2019s rather strange.\u00a0 Many users have reported that, when they forgot to fill the service area, a third party lead generation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[7,109,120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seosolutions.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}