Local Businesses have come to realize the importance of Google My Business pages in local search results, In fact, regularly updated and verified listings can have a positive impact on rankings with Google. Recently, there’s been a buzz around local businesses that haven’t logged in to their Google My Business accounts in awhile are at risk in becoming unverified.
Google Representative Jade Wand confirmed that Google will make an effort to contact many “Inactive” Google My Business users:
“In some cases, we may contact Google My Business users via email to confirm that they are still actively managing a business page. If a user is unresponsive to our attempts to contact him or her and has not logged into Google My Business for a significant length of time, then we may unverify pages in the account. We’re doing this in order to continue to provide users with the best experience when they’re looking for local businesses like yours. If you find that a page in your account has been incorrectly unverified, please contact support to get assistance restoring verification.“
It is likely this can effect accounts that have been inactive for over six months. So if you were to receive an email from google that looks a lot like this:
Important information about your Google My Business account
Dear business owner,
Thanks for being part of the small business community on Google. This email requires action from you so your Google My Business pages can maintain their current ‘verified’ status. It’s very quick—it shouldn’t take more than a couple of minutes.
We’re doing this because we haven’t heard from you in a while, and we want to make sure that people looking for your following businesses find the most up-to-date information on Google:
• Googleplex (business name)
Simply follow these three easy steps:
1. Sign in to your Google My Business account. Click here if you have any trouble signing in.
2. Review and update your information for each page.
3. Click the “Done editing” button.That’s it! Please note that if you don’t take action before May 29th, 2015, you’ll have to verify your pages again for future updates to be shown on Google.
If you have any questions, you can contact us anytime. Thank you for helping us make Google Maps better.
Sincerely,
The Google My Business Team
Then it would be ideal to log into your Google My Business Account to ensure updated and accurate business information. Be sure to visit the Google My Business Help Center if you require any assistance with the verification process.
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