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Hi everyone,

I'm hoping a Product Expert can help review my case. My Google Business
Profile was suspended on May 8, 2026 with "Deceptive Content"
classification. I submitted one appeal which was denied.

I believe this is a false positive. I'm a legitimate licensed tradesperson:

- Red Seal Certified Plumber (Interprovincial Standards)
- L...

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Hi All - I tried to search the forum for my question but didn't find the right answer (feel free to point me in the right direction should I have missed it). I'm based in Singapore and I have just optimised two local businesses, both of them had the wrong floor number. In Singapore the floor and unit number are written like this #24-03 for example - first one is the floor number...

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Yosef ran a large-scale lead-generation network across the United States.

Here is the press release announcing the lawsuit. Hopefully, we will see more lawsuits in the future.

Sadly, the GBPs are still live on Google, ...

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Most of us have either had one or two suspensions on our Google My Business Pages and tried appealing and failing and appeal once and sometimes still failed.

My question is, when the profile is appealed twice and it fails. And weve gone to the google forum and it failed too.

What are my options for that same business and location

Thank you.

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Curious if anyone has run into this specific GBP/maps issue with multi-tenant plaza buildings.

Client is a brick-and-mortar jewelry repair/store located in a retail plaza with ~15 businesses sharing the same street address, differentiated only by suite numbers.

Example:
Business A = 123 Main St Suite 43 Business B (same category/competitor) = 123 Main St S...

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