Did your Google Business Profile pin get moved? Don’t move it back until you watch this.
So, back in March, Joy Hawkins, a local SEO expert from Sterling Sky, noticed that local businesses were getting their map pins hijacked and moved to a different location.
Businesses were having their pins moved into lakes, out of state, and piled up with other hijacked pins hours away from their location.
Not only is this a pain in the ass for potential customers, but businesses were losing their local rankings.
Why Google allows bad actors to screw with your business is beyond me. But they’re allowing it.
And it gets worse. Turns out, if you then try to move it back from within the Google Business Profile platform, Google is suspending those profiles.
So, what should you do? First, go watch this video from Darren Shaw of Whitespark.
Then, I paid the $1 a month for his service. And then look at his instructions on how to fix this.
